Archives at Risk #7: Doors of Perception
What should we do with designers' own archives? What should - or should not - be preserved for posterity? In the Archives at Risk podcast, curator Annemartine van Kesteren from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen sits down with the designers and their heirs.
12 March 2024
Thirty boxes full of videotapes, reports, programme booklets, and flyers are currently hidden under an overhang in a French garden. Such is the state of the archive for Doors of Perception, one of the Netherlands’ leading digital culture events. In this episode, Annemartine speaks with founders John Thackera and Kristi van Riet about the start of the Internet age, the Doors of Perception conference and the challenges of the archive.
Archives at Risk #7: Doors of Perception