Archiving Plurality : A Collaborative Process is the result of a year-long project led by post-doctoral researcher-in-residency Alessia Cargnelli for NIVAL, with the objective of further facilitating access, inclusion and visibility of artists and designers from diverse ethnic, cultural, gender backgrounds and nationalities currently underrepresented in the collections. Michelle Boyle is a focus group contributor to Archiving Plurality.

The publication collates the responses of the many arts professionals involved in the research and a series of commissioned writings by teresa cisneros, Sara Damaris Muthi, Bojana Janković and Sophie Mak-Schram. This multiplicity of approaches enable us to better understand and preserve the plurality of creative contemporary practices on the island of Ireland, ultimately seeking to answer the question “How to practise the right to belong?”

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Archiving Plurality is published by NIVAL: National Irish Visual Arts Library, edited by Alessia Cargnelli and designed by Alex Synge. The publication is kindly supported by the Arts Council’s Capacity Building Scheme and NCAD, through the Edward Murphy Bequest and the Art Research Development Office.