Jes will be speaking at the forthcoming ‘Curating Contemporary Art and Design: Archives and Collections Intensive‘ at the RCA on 10 Nov 2022.
Her contribution will consider the status of the Archive of Destruction as a curator-led, self-initiated project, existing beyond an institutional framework. She will discuss the playful way in which modes of destruction in the archive have been arranged (fear, love, greed, boredom etc) in order to critique the system of categorisation often employed by museums.