Abstract
Multi-media artist and performer Ursula Brookbank has created the She World Archive to organize and display an array of what she calls inspirational “relics, ephemera and everyday objects from the lives of women.” Brookbank has searched estate sales, alleyways, and secondhand shops for scrapbooks, paintings, sewing notions, and myriad household items used and crafted by women. She repurposes many of the items for her own installations, video art, photographs, and immersive performances that strive to capture “the energy held in personal residue.” The collaborating authors present a visual profile highlighting the She World Archive as a tactile collection of women's things that evoke private histories, accompanied by a short essay that contextual-izes the images from the archive in terms of the recent focus on affect in archival theory. The photographs are also accompanied by captions that highlight Brookbank's present and past projects employing objects from the collection.
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