STAGING THE ARCHIVE

The earliest examples of the modern archival artwork were made in the 1930s, but it is since the 1960s that archival principles have increasingly been used by artists to inform, structure and shape their works. This includes practices that consist of archive const ruction, archaeological investigation, record keeping or the use of archived materials/ however, they also interrogate the principle s, claims and effects of the archive. Staging the Archive shows how artists read the concept of the archive against the grain, quest ioning n...[Read more]