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Where to draw the limits of the archive? How to define its basic terms? The collection? The library? The museum? The list?
Artworks that generative archival material are those that, on the instruction of the artist, or by processes that are inherent to the way the artwork exists, generate additional – usually documentary – material at each activation or display. 2 The artwork creates ‘documents’ intentionally, leaving traces or remains.
The archival turn suggests a radical change in the conceptualization of these artworks, with consequences for the normative framework of conservation that had long been compliant with museum practices related to conventional, apparently static artifacts.
Abstract. This chapter analyses what happens when archival theories migrate to an art context, and considers the specific conditions that make the term stick. It shows how the archive functions as a productive short cut to theorise a changed notion of art, and the complex function of art institutions, documents and discursive systems in post ...
Tate Archive contains material relating to the history of British art by artists, arts organisations, and prominent art world figures. Tate’s Public Records Collection contains the archival records of Tate’s own history.
This discussion is organised around ten thematic headings that include the political and critical associations of archive art; the most common theories and texts referenced; notions of the unreliable archive; the relationship between archive and photography; the archival notion as a curatorial connective idea; the contrast between archive as a ...
