Anik Fournier

Anik Fournier is the curator of archive and research at If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution and teaches contemporary art theory at BEAR Fine Art, ArtEZ University of the Arts (Arnhem, NL). Recent research and writing centred the composite life-form of an artwork, exploring how different archival registers and methodologies afford liveness: a capacity to create affective, relational, and embodied modes of encounter within the archive. Building on this, her current research has turned to the capacities of different bodies of water to register, hold and transmit material histories, questioning what modes of attention, sensing, and interpretation can be developed in order to listen to, create meaning, and learn from water’s archival modalities.