Art Archives and Research Methods: An Overview
Speaker: Sezin Romi
Time: 18.00-20.30
In this seminar organized by Open Dialogue Istanbul, Sezin Romi will discuss the critical role of libraries and archives in research. The talk will focus on the mission, formation, and design of Salt Research, and how resources are brought together and made available to the public. Romi will elaborate on the publication and archive collections along with the communal facilities provided for users at Salt Research. Through Salt’s selected research projects and programs, she will discuss various approaches in the constitution of archive collections focusing on art in Turkey in the post-1950s and the critical importance of their access within the context of art history.
Sezin Romi
Sezin Romi is the Senior Librarian and Archivist at Salt (Istanbul, Turkey). In addition to managing the library, she carries out the necessary processes for the research and access of art archives at SALT Research. She was also involved in the research and visualization of Salt’s projects It was a time of conversation (2012-2013), From England with Love, İsmail Saray (2014-2015), Idealist School, Productive Studio (2018), and History of the Painting and Sculpture Museums Association (2022). Having collaborated in the research processes of Salt’s various e-publications, Romi is the co-editor of these publications: İsmail Saray (Salt, 2018), Sentez ve Montaj: Özer Kabaş Yazıları (Salt, 2021) and Stories and Threads: Perspectives on Art Archives (L’Internationale, 2022).
About Salt and Salt Research
Founded by Garanti BBVA in 2011, Salt is a cultural institution that develops innovative programs to create a free platform for encounters, research, and expression for its users and visitors.
Salt’s programs comprise exhibitions, publications, digital projects, talks, conferences, film screenings, performances, and workshops.
Salt explores intersections and interactions between various disciplines and focuses on art, architecture, design, and social and economic history. The institution supports the production of knowledge by fostering the dialogue between the past and the present while addressing contemporary culture through new approaches and interpretations.
Salt Research comprises a specialized library and an archive of physical and digital sources and documents on visual practices, the built environment, social life and economic history. As part of a long-term commitment to digitizing resources at Salt Research, the institution makes documents and sources universally available via saltresearch.org. together with the catalog of local access publications.
* To learn conditions of participation in a single seminar, we would kindly ask you to send an e-mail to apply@curatingcontemporaryart.org address noting the required seminar details. Single seminar participation fee is 150 TL.
* The program will take place on the digital platform Zoom.