Title & Author:

Productive archiving : artistic strategies, future memories, and fluid identities / Ernst van Alphen (ed.) ; contributors, Ernst van Alphen [and twenty others].

Publication:

Amsterdam : Valiz, 2023.
©2023

Description:

269 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The archive as a laboratory of the new : where remembering and forgetting meet / Aleida Assmann -- 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 -- Pass it on : private stories, public histories / Daria Tuminas -- The archive OneThirty / Monika Huber -- The archival space of Herengracht H401 : artistic research as productive archiving / Lars Ebert -- Hidden map of the city of Buenos Aires / Sebastián Díaz Morales -- The fine line of memory : passages in the work of Díaz Morales / Ana Paula Saab -- Archival absurdity, or a walk in the park / Annet Dekker -- Reduction and anachronism in the archive : the small systems of Gianfranco Baruchello / Carla Subrizi -- Taking care of images : the collecting and archiving of Inge Meijer / Ernst van Alphen.
Visual essays: Walid Raad -- Marjan Teeuwen -- Pablo Lerma -- Santu Mofokeng -- Michelle Williams Gamaker -- Sebastián Díaz Morales -- William Kentridge -- Monika Huber -- Inge Meijer -- Jeannette Christensen.

Summary:

"Productive Archiving discusses a variety of problems of archival organizations. It mainly focuses on the following three issues with archival organizations that are usually overlooked: first, the question of inclusion in or exclusion from the archive; second, the loss of individuality and specificity 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 in archival organizations."-- Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9789493246164 (paperback)
9493246167 (paperback)

Subject:

Archives Philosophy.
Archives in art.
Archival institutes and workshops.
Archival materials.
Archival materials Selection for preservation.
Art archives.
Archives Collection management.
Archives Social aspects.
Archives Aspect social.
Archives Philosophie.
Archives dans l'art.
Archives Ateliers et séminaires.
Documents d'archives.
Documents d'archives Conservation et restauration Choix.
Archives artistiques.
Archives Gestion des collections.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Alphen, Ernst van, editor, contributor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318567
Call No.: 318567
Copy: 1
Status: Available