Forever Young: Juvenilia, Amateurism, and the Popular Past (or ‘Transvaluing Values in the Age of the Archive’)

This article investigates the way artists engage with history and technologies in such a way as to eliminate distinctions between 'the contemporary' and history. The concept of 'Juvenilia' is deployed and seen as a useful form of evaluation with which artists might play with evaluations of currency and progress. The article works its way through numerous examples but utilizes Elizabeth Price's works as exemplary of the article's interest and speculative argument.