Visit to the Australian Jazz Museum (incorporating the Victorian Jazz Archive) with Dr Andrew Flinn

Today I had the pleasure of taking Dr Andrew Flinn from University College London to visit the Australian Jazz Museum (incorporating the Victorian Jazz Archive), located in Wantirna, an outer suburb of Melbourne. 

Public lecture by Andrew Flinn and Anne Gilliland

This evening I was fortunate to attend a public lecture in Melbourne with papers delivered by Dr Andrew Flinn (University College London) and Professor Anne Gilliland (UCLA).

Jez Collins on 'activist archivism'

During discussion at the “DIY Preservation” round table held yesterday as part of the ‘Re/soundings: Documenting music and memory’ event in Rotterdam, Professor George McKay (University of Salford) questioned the use of the term DIY to describe the kinds of heritage institutions that I am exploring in this project. His argument was that “DIY is about grassroots, alternative culture and politics” and so using ‘DIY’ in the context of these archives and museums “depoliticizes” the concept.