As part of the Cupar Arts Festival, Open Access creates a relaxed environment within the YMCA in which the public can discover and read handmade and printed data from The Attic Archive in Dundee.
The Attic Archive is a small independent archive with its origins in the 1970s. Since then it has collected original artworks, mail art, correspondence, video and audio cassettes, photographs, books, magazines, catalogues, postcards, posters, packaging and ephemera. Data from the archive have been exhibited internationally and in 2006 the archive participated in ‘I confess that I was there’ at the University of Ulster with an installation of data from the 1980s.
Open Access is the first public outing of The Attic Archive in Scotland and presents a wide cross section of data from the 1970s to 2009. Peter Haining, the archive’s curator, will be present during opening hours to interpret the work on show which includes artists’ books and mail art, catalogues and small press editions, folios and magazines, featuring the work of Anderson Glob, Marshall Anderson, Vittore Baroni, Peter Below, Monty Cantsin, Robin Crozier, Steve Dilworth, Alec Finlay, Stewart Home, Pete Horobin, Mark Pawson, Room 13, Lon Spiegelman, Rod Summers, Stefan Szczelkun, Jake Tilson, We Productions, David Zack and many more.
YMCA, 93 BONNYGATE, CUPAR
TUES. - FRI. 12 NOON - 6PM, SATURDAY 10.30AM - 6PM, SUNDAY 1 - 4 PM (CLOSED MONDAYS)
Peter Haining
Folio