At a time when feminist archival materials are increasingly present in international exhibition making, this panel explores the relationship of feminist archival practice to exhibition. Across this panel, the idea that feminist archives do not precede exhibition but instead are constituted through expanded practices of curating, exhibition and distribution is introduced and tested. How do feminist archival practices that happen through collective kinship networks enable materials to be available for exhibition? How does distribution also function to preserve archives of feminist practice? What processes of creative and ethical custodianship does the feminist archive require? And how do ephemeral textual materials that blur distinctions between archive and collection promote not only new forms of exhibition making but the re-imagining of institutions?

Contributors: Karen di Franco, Charlotte Procter, Radclyffe Hall (chaired by Catherine Grant)