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Archiving to Oblivion

Hernández Velázquez, Yaiza María (2015) Archiving to Oblivion. In: A Story Within A Story...the 8th Goteborg International Biennial For Contemporary Art. Art And Theory Publishing, Gothenburg. ISBN 9789188031198

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Type of Research: Book Section
Creators: Hernández Velázquez, Yaiza María
Description:

At some point the archive became a concern of art theory. Not archiving in its verbal form, but "the archive". For some the archive was an artistic genre, for others it was a medium, or a theme, or a precondition of any artwork. Some talked about artists who found their primary materials in existing archives, or about those who built their own idiosyncratic archives, or those who simply collected stuff together or had a penchant for old bits of paper and faded photographs, but also about those who sought out and made visible documents neglected by history and hence not previously archived…

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Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: ARCHIVE, CULTURAL MEMORY
Publisher/Broadcaster/Company: Art And Theory Publishing
Your affiliations with UAL: Colleges > Central Saint Martins
Research Centres/Networks > Afterall
Date: 1 September 2015
Date Deposited: 27 Sep 2016 12:45
Last Modified: 09 Nov 2023 04:46
Item ID: 10116
URI: https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/10116

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