Reflections on the Archive as a Strategy for Re-writing Histories
The reflections on the archive’s role in forgotten heritage research are based in the positioning of the archive as a strategy for re-writing histories in the contemporary art field. The text dives into the narrative of video art development in Slovenia until 1991 and exposes some of its representat...
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| Language: | English |
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Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
2021-12-01
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| Series: | Miejsce |
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| Online Access: | https://miejsce.asp.waw.pl/en/reflections-on-the-archive-as-a-strategy-for-re-writing-histories/ |
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| Summary: | The reflections on the archive’s role in forgotten heritage research are based in the positioning of the archive as a strategy for re-writing histories in the contemporary art field. The text dives into the narrative of video art development in Slovenia until 1991 and exposes some of its representatives, while for the period from the 1990s until today the interest is not on the video art timeline, but rather on the archival approaches that were present and were shaping video art history making. The case study of an archival institution concerns the Center for Contemporary Arts SCCA-Ljubljana, meanwhile the individual artist examples are Ana Nuša Dragan, Zemira Alajbegović and Ema Kugler, female representatives of a specific use of the video medium from the 1960s until the 1990s, selected as representatives of the ‘Not Yet Written Stories’ project. The emphasis is not on their practice, but on how they were treated by the evolving narratives of performance and video-art. The institution of the archive and the archive as an approach towards historicisation in contemporary art history are discussed. |
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| ISSN: | 2450-1611 2956-4158 |