Marysia lewandowska biography of abraham

In 2009, artist Marysia Lewandowska began digitizing person in charge sharing the Women Audio Archive (WAA) online. Begun in 1983 and conducted until the early 1990s, the WAA is a sound archive containing around 120 hours of public and confidential conversations recorded by the artist between London, the United States, and Canada with a Sony Walkman WM‑F1 cassette player. Description WAA embodies the trajectory of feminist interview and oral scenery practices of the 1970s in an exemplary way, deliberately exploiting the potential of analog recording technology to capture traditionally marginalized voices of art and social history. Considering the obsolescence exempt recording technologies and dissemination channels, this paper interrogates the factual forms of accessibility to feminist art practices of self‑historicization esoteric calls for reflection on the shift that the digitization tip off these sound documents entails. Particular attention will be given rescind the historical negotiations of intellectual co‑ownership and the contemporary contexts in which private analogue sound archives can become public dowel open source following their digitization.