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| 19 Jan 2008 01:21:53 pm |
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The current show at the International Centre of Photography, Archive Fever, Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, is organized by Okwui Enwezor (see http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.3639335/)
This show 'will present works by leading contemporary artists who use archival documents to rethink the meaning of identity, history, memory, and loss. Over the past thirty years, successive generations have taken wide-ranging approaches to the photographic and filmic archive. The works presented here take many forms, including physical archives arranged by peculiar cataloguing methods, imagined biographies of fictitious persons, collections of found and anonymous photographs, film versions of photographic albums, and photomontages composed of historical photographs. These images have a wide-ranging subject matter yet are linked by the artists' shared meditation on photography and film as the quintessential media of the archive'.
The artists in the show are: Christian Boltanski, Tacita Dean, Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Jef Geys, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Craigie Horsfield, Lamia Joreige, Zoe Leonard, Sherrie Levine, Ilán Lieberman, Glenn Ligon, Robert Morris, Walid Raad, Thomas Ruff, Anri Sala, Fazal Sheikh, Lorna Simpson, Eyal Sivan, Vivan Sundaram, Nomeda and Gediminas Urbona, Andy Warhol.
There is an interesting review of the show here that teases out some of the issues relating to images, representation and authenticity as they relate to the various works: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/arts/design/18arch.html?ex=1358398800&en=54db5f0851b2ec98&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
While we are collectively, eventually, moving towards a study archive for the LSC, it seems important to consider some of the issues around documentary and archiving generally and its possible relationship to our research and artwork. This line is certainly blurred for me with my investigations of different representations of the place (flim, photography, literature and journalism) and how these might eventually be re-presented or re-articulated as, in, or with artwork(s). |
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Category : Archiving
| Posted By : Sarah |  Comments[61] |  Trackbacks [0] |
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| 15 Nov 2007 01:05:36 pm |
| archiving |
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| I had a look at the website for the Centre for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), as suggested by Sarah. Their Land Use Database (of which an edited version exists on the website) seemed to me to be a very appealing way of documenting our changing uses and understandings of, and relationships to, land and landscapes. As far as I could make out, members of the public as well as the CLUI team can suggest sites to be included, possibly submitting their own images and descriptions. This seems to result in a detailed and diverse archive, stretching far beyond what could be achieved by a dedicated team of researchers. Further, its engagement with people outside the organisation I imagine encourages use of the database, and perhaps constructive criticism and refining of the database as well – and if it does not, it could. The visual element of the archive is attractive too, with images of the places in question, or maps showing their location, included for each entry. I wonder whether this might provide a model for a New Sites – New Fields GIS? Would it be possible to solicit suggested sites, images, maps and descriptions from members of the public, to add to the artists’ contributions? If it worked, this could be an effective way of archiving the myriad small- and large-scale changes in rural and urban parts of the Breifne region, and might even give some idea of how these changes are being received. |
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Category : Archiving
| Posted By : Bryonie | Comments[25] | Trackbacks [0] |
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| 12 Nov 2007 02:39:27 pm |
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Just wanted to post some sources that people may or not be aware of given the current discourse around archiving and contemporary art practice.
1. Julie Bacon on art's new(ish) interest in the archive: CIRCA issue 119, spring 2007 (not available online yet)
2. Sarah Pierce's Metropolitan Complex project : www.themetropolitancomplex.com
3. The Atlas Group Archive http://www.theatlasgroup.org/
4. The Center for Land Use Interpretation (this is a really fantastic resource and really interesting for us to look at as a model I think) www.clui.org
5. 'Nayia Yiakoumaki's In An Archive Fever is an examination of the archive as a rigidity in flux considering the great interest of curators and artists in institutional archives taking as impetus Derrida's Archive Fever'… http://www.art-omma.org/NEW/issue10/text/theory/10_In%20an%20Archive%20Fever%20by%20N%20Yiakoumaki.htm
6. Anna Harding's POTENTIAL: ongoing archive looks at the processes of sorting and organising information opened to scrutiny by artists. She investigates it in practice with a curatorial initiative POTENTIAL: ongoing archive which took place at the John Hansard Gallery Southampton... http://www.art-omma.org/NEW/issue10/text/theory/10_Potential%20ongoing%20archive%20by%20Anna%20Harding.htm
7. Elpida Karaba's Thoughts on an archive project considers the curatorial possibilities of archives and looks at the role of the curator as the creator of systems of networking established by 'living' archives. She takes as a case study Charta project an archive of artists living and working in the Balkans. http://www.art-omma.org/NEW/issue10/text/theory/Elpida%20Karaba_Thoughts%20on%20an%20archive%20project.htm
Just for those of us who might be a bit self-reflexive about the whole archiving impulse and what we're setting out to do, or what related projects other art practitioners have been doing. I'm sure Christine might have more thoughts to add to this, since from my understanding it particularly relates to her practice. Also Sarah and Julie work at Interface, which organised some events relating to these issues.
Ps sorry about the long stringy links – couldn’t get the URLs to work properly. |
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Category : Archiving
| Posted By : Sarah | Comments[43] | Trackbacks [0] |
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