Productive Archiving—Artistic Strategies, Future Memories, and Fluid Identities

Productive Archiving—Artistic Strategies, Future Memories, and Fluid Identities

Release: Winter 2022
Format: 24 × 17
Price: 25.00 

Productive Archiving discusses a variety of problems 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 and archival organizations.

Supported by Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.

Publisher

Valiz

Editor

Ernst van Alphen

Designer

Lotte Lara Schröder

Release

Winter 2022

Bookbinding

Paperback

Language

English

Format in cm (w × h × d)

24 × 17

ISBN

978-94-93246-16-4

86 in stock
Productive Archiving—Artistic Strategies, Future Memories, and Fluid Identities