Translations:Een tijdelijk noodonderkomen voor het audiovisuele archief van Svend Thomsen / TVF/3/en

Problem

Since 1980, Svend Thomsen, first in Denmark and since 2001 in Ghent, has been creating an extensive archive of video productions on various aspects of contemporary art, including visual art, performance art, theatre, dance, experimental music and sound art. The archive contains not only recordings of exhibitions, festivals, lectures and seminars on contemporary art, but also interviews with visual artists, musicians, film-makers and video artists. The archive contains approximately 1400 videotapes (3000 productions). It is an archive with a considerable heritage value, mainly because of the content, which is significant from an art history perspective, and which is seldom recorded by the regular audiovisual media (television). For more information, read the self-interview with Svend Thomsen. Svend Thomsen contacted PACKED vzw on 12 September 2014 to arrange a meeting. During that meeting, on 22 September 2014, two things became clear:

• The need to accommodate the audiovisual archive in another location from the second week of October 2014, because of urgent renovation work in the original storage space;
• The need to digitise the audiovisual archive in the near future (conversion to computer files) to safeguard it in the long term and make it accessible for research and education.