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The Liquid Archive explores the impact of digital photography on art within the exhibition space.Asking in what ways new image capturing technologies inflect and infect the exhibition space, amid the centuries old phenomena of the collectively produced story of art. Does the ease of production and widely circulated distribution of the image of the exhibition, slipping from laptop to smart phone with increasing speed and fluidity, circumnavigate the need for the exhibition at all?The Liquid Archive is an ever-expanding archive of amateur photographs of exhibitions and artworks collated online. The work will be projected in the project space and acts as a site for further discussion, with artist Nicholas Smith extending an open invitation to all to contribute new images during the exhibition period. Reflecting the dissemination of ideas and knowledge through this process spectators are asked to submit their images of exhibitions to:[email protected] on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Tumblr with #liquidarchiveA newly commissioned audio work by Cristina Garrido responds to The Liquid Archive, observing the differing factors that cause the perceptive transformation of the real into the virtual world – in relation to her work #JWIITMTESDSA? (Just what is it that makes today ́s exhibitions so different, so appealing?) - a digital archive of more than 2500 images of international contemporary art exhibitions collected over 4 years from online media such as Contemporary Art Daily, This is Tomorrow, MOUSSE Digital, gallery websites, and social media.The Liquid Archive is the first iteration of a four part series of discursive events titled Image of an Exhibition, also at: Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art - Sunderland, Spike Island - Bristol and TAP –Southend. A publication will accompany Image of an Exhibition in 2016. 

Talk - The Liquid Archive – Exhibition/Distribution: Saturday 3rd Oct 14:00 – 16:00Paul Teasdale, Louisa Riley Smith, Cristina Garrido and Ami Clarke discuss a distributed sense of the exhibition, in both its making, and its preserving, touching on social media, processual works within online frameworks, and archival projects.* Ami Clarke – will address artists’ publishing as art form and process, Banner Repeaters publishing in tandem with exhibitions and the Un-Publish imprint, and BookBlast, the newly launched digital archive of Artists’ Publishing.* Paul Teasdale will be talking about issues raised in his article ‘Total Recall: On collective memory and personal experience’ in the digital realm. (Frieze Issue 170 April 2015)* Louisa Riley Smith is founder of the 20th Century Art Archives since 1985, and will consider the pre-digital landscape in artists publishing, through her considerable collection of 20thC Artists’ books.* Cristina Garrido will be talking on her work #JWIITMTESDSA? (Just what is it that makes today ́s exhibitions so different, so appealing?) - a digital archive of more than 2500 images of international contemporary art exhibitions collected over 4 years from online media.