From August 25 to 28, the Arsenal Summer School will take place for the second time. Under the title "What 80 Million Items Want – Archives in Motion," nine events — workshops, discussions, performances, and screenings — as well as lecturers from theory and practice will deal with different conceptions of archives, their accessibility and mediation. If one understands a film archive as the result of long-term institutional practice, it is not only defined by film copies. Letters, program brochures, posters, gossip, recollections, old projectors, and myths of all sorts belong to the biography of an archive, as do the persons who have shaped it. An archive becomes experienceable through screenings, exhibitions, performances, research, curatorial practice, and discussions. Not only, but also starting from the history of Arsenal, the Summer School is dedicated to a concept that is shaped by different attributions and at the same appears more open and in motion than ever before.
