Translations:Terugblikken op 20 jaar Theater Aan Zee met een online tentoonstelling/3/en
Problem
TAZ wanted to tell and visualise their own unique history at the twentieth edition of the festival in 2016, so they started a preliminary process to map out and centralise their archive, and enthusiastic volunteers drew up an inventory at item level under guidance from Het Firmament. The steps that TAZ took in the preliminary process provided the organisation with a clear picture of their archive, which formed the basis for their further archival ambitions. These ambitions were developed in more detail by a working group comprised of TAZ employees, former TAZ programmers, former TAZ laureates and a number of project partners, and an artistic core within this broad working group determined what archive content was valuable for storage and what should be made accessible to the public. To do this, they discussed various methods for making the content accessible and who the target audiences would be. Among other things, they decided to make the content available in an online digital exhibition. TAZ wanted to do this so that the general public – as well as researchers, employees, students, journalists and the arts and heritage sector – could find out about the festival’s past. They wanted to raise awareness of Theater Aan Zee’s history and drum up more support. This practical example describes how the online exhibition was developed.