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Book SynopsisArtists in the Archive explores the agency and materiality of the archival document through a stunning collection of critical writings and original artworks. It examines the politics and philosophy behind re-using remains, historicising this artistic practice and considering the breadth of ways in which archival materials inform, inflect and influence new works.
Taking a fresh look at the relationships between insider know-how and outsider knowledge, Artists in the Archive opens a vital dialogue between a global range of artists and scholars. It seeks to trouble the distinction between artistic practice and scholarly research, offering disciplinary perspectives from experimental theatre, performance art, choreography and dance, to visual art making, archiving and curating.
Table of ContentsPaul Clarke, Simon Jones, Nick Kaye and Johanna Linsley, Introduction: inside and outside the archive
Nick Kaye, Liveness and the entanglement with things
1. REMAKE
1a Janez Janša, Monument G as a call for reconstruction
1b Tim Etchells, Untitled (After Violent Incident)
1c Robin Deacon, Stuart Sherman's Hamlet: a careful misreading
1d Rosemary Butcher and Stefanie Sachsenmaier, Rosemary Butcher: After Kaprow–a visual journey
1e Zhang Huan, Six Questions
1f Adrian Heathfield, The ghost time of transformation.
2. RETURN
2a Blast Theory/John Hunter, Jog Shuttler
2b Lin Hixson and Matthew Goulish, Our 18 Beginnings
2c Paul Clarke/Performance Re-enactment Society, Performing art history: non-linear, synchronous and syncopated times in Performance Re-enactment Society’s Group Show (Arnolfini, Bristol 2012)
2d Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Re-enacting the archive: untimely meditations on the use and abuse of repetition
2e Amelia Jones, Archive, repertoire and embodied histories in Não Bustamente’s performative practice
2f Andrew Quick, The patina of performance: documentary practice and the search for origins in The Wooster Group’s Fish Story
3. REVIEW
3a Mike Pearson, The lesson of anatomy
3b Fiona Templeton, Authority, authorship and authoring in the Theatre of Mistakes
3c Bodies in Flight, Do the Wild Thing! Redux
3d Felix Gmelin, Understanding negative dialectics
3e Johanna Linsley, 9 beginnings: sonic theatrical possibilities and potentialities in the performance archive
3f Maaike Bleeker, Resistance to representation and the fabrication of truth: performance as thought-apparatus
4. ARCHIVE
4a Giles Bailey, Talker Catalogue
4b Terry O’Connor, Nothing goes to waste
4c Koh Nguang How, The Singapore Art Archive Project
4d Richard Hancock and Traci Kelly, Playing with shadows and speaking in echoes
4e Claire MacDonald, Performing with ghosts: a talk remembered
4f Simon Jones, The future perfect of the archive: re-thinking performance in the age of third nature
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Index
