Abstract
Our roundtable emerged from a collaborative video essay ‘Kiss off’, created for Ian Garwood’s Indy vinyl for the masses project. ‘Kiss off’ explores the subject of archives with the question: what does it mean to behave badly in the archive? (See the Video Essays section in this issue of Teknokultura). The roundtable expands this inquiry, with the participants each reflecting on their video segment and engaging questions of institutional power of archives; accessibility; acts of erasure; our implication in, and resistance to, systems of oppression; and archival materiality in digital research. Over three months, we reflected on making the piece and the consequent questions that arose. Echoing the relay aspect of the video’s creation, each meeting addressed one participant’s segment in the order of contributions, with sessions spaced akin to the progress of the piece between makers, and each participant leading discussions in turn. This roundtable represents our discursive labour.