Archives on Show: Revoicing, Shapeshifting, Displacing – A Curatorial Glossary [electronic resource].

Archive Books Haus der Kulturen der Welt 2022

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Archives on Show brings the potential of reformulating the social and political relevance of archives by curatorial means into focus. Based on the specific properties, faculties and methods of curation, the volume highlights those techniques and strategies that deal with archives not only to make their genesis and history apparent but also to open them up for the future. The 22 different ways of dealing with archives testify to the curatorial participation in (re)shaping the archival logic, structures and conditions. As process-oriented, collective and relational modes of producing meaning, these curatorial practices allow for the alteration, reconfiguration and mobilization of the laws, norms and narratives that the archive preserves as preconditions of its power. The contributions to this volume by artists, curators and theorists demonstrate approaches that curatorially insist on building other relations between human and non-human archival participants. Each is using the book to create a curatorial constellation that generates and forms new connections between different times and spaces, narratives, disciplines and discourses. Configured as a glossary, the positions assembled in this volume exemplify curatorial methods with which to treat the archive as site and tool of collective, ongoing negotiations over its potential societal role and function.
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Imperialism
Museums--Curatorship
Art--Exhibitions
Historiography
Information Commons

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Beatrice von Bismarck
Heba Y. Amin
Talal Afifi
Eiman Hussein
Tamer El Said
Stefanie Schulte Strathaus
Haytham El Wardany
Julie Ault
Kader Attia
Roger M. Buergel
Sophia Prinz
Yael Bartana
Rosi Braidotti
Kirsten Cooke
Ann Harezlak
Alice Creischer
Andreas Siekmann
Octavian Esanu
Megan Hoetger
Carlos Kong
Iman Issa
Kayfa ta
Kapwani Kiwanga
Doreen Mende
Stefan Nowotny
Marion von Osten
pad.ma
Abdias Nascimento
Eran Schaerf
Magdalena Tyżlik-Carver
Françoise Vergès
Adrian Bridget
Corinne Butta
Aby Gaye
Mia Jaccarini
Atelier Brenda
Sophie Keij
Lore Janssens
Astrid Etienne
Stefan Aue
Lama El Khatib
Natalie Ruhland
Anja Dunkel
Chiara Figone
Sara Marcon