PRODUCTIVE ARCHIVING. Artistic Strategies, Future Memories, and Fluid Identities

Title: PRODUCTIVE ARCHIVING. Artistic Strategies, Future Memories, and Fluid Identities
Published by: Valiz, Amsterdam
Release Date: 2023
Contributors: Ernst VAN ALPHEN
Genre: theory / elmélet
Pages: 272
ISBN13: 978-94-932461-6-4

9990 HUF

 

Archival organisation is a basic symbolic mode with which we organise our lives and the past, present, and future. ‘Productive Archiving’ discusses a variety of problems in archival organisation, in particular three issues that are usually overlooked in archives: the question of inclusion or exclusion; the loss of individuality and specificity (i.e., homogenisation); and that archiving may become a form of pigeonholing, putting specific identities into a confined space. This book suggests exploring constructive and creative solutions, especially through the example of artistic archives, which tend to offer speculative, unexpected ways to order, select, and narrate information.