Productive archiving : artistic strategies, future memories, and fluid identities / Ernst van Alphen (ed.)

Contributor(s):

Alphen, Ernst van [ed.]

Publication details: Amsterdam : Valiz, 2022Description: 269 pISBN:

9789493246164

Summary: Productive Archiving discusses a variety of problems of archival organizations. It mainly focuses on the following three issues that are usually overlooked: first, the question of inclusion in or exclusion from the archive; second, the loss of individuality in the archive, the danger of homogenization; and third, that archiving may become a form of pigeonholing, boxing specific identities into a confined space. Avoiding the archive because of these problems is not an option, because archival organization is a basic symbolic mode on the basis of which we organize our lives, the past, the present and the future. What this book suggests is that it is best to explore constructive and creative solutions for these problems. Especially artistic archives seem to be able to develop these possible solutions, because they offer speculative, unexpected ways to order, select, and narrate specific information, and bring about new connections and archival organizations. (Font: Editor)

List(s) this item appears in: Novetats 2024 (Juliol/Agost)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 04088	1	Available		CERC24050024

Introduction : When is archiving productive, and when is not? / Ernst van Alphen -- The archive as a laboratory of the new: Where remembering and forgetting meet / Aleida Assmann -- Archiving identities: The lure of the archive: The Atlas Project of Walid Raad / Jeffrey Wallen ; "Does the Fact That I fall for men also make me a woman?" / Merapi Obermayer ; Transforming functional archives into storage archives: The photographic monuments of Mathieu Pernot / Ernst van Alphen ; A monument for future memory: The Ringelblum archive as a classical archive / Ernst van Alphen ; Postcards from the archive: Pablo Lerma's Queer Poetics / Drew Sawyer -- Visual essays: Walid Raad ; Marjan Teeuwen ; Pablo Lerma ; Santu Mofokeng ; Michelle Williams Gamaker

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