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- Archive Everything: Mapping the Everyday
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: The MIT Press
summary
In Archive Everything, Gabriella Giannachi traces the evolution of the archive into the apparatus through which we map the everyday. The archive, traditionally a body of documents or a site for the preservation of documents, changed over the centuries to encompass, often concurrently, a broad but interrelated number of practices not traditionally considered as archival. Archives now consist of not only documents and sites but also artworks, installations, museums, social media platforms, and mediated and mixed reality environments. Giannachi tracks the evolution of these diverse archival practices across the centuries.
Archives today offer a multiplicity of viewing platforms to replay the past, capture the present, and map our presence. Giannachi uses archaeological practices to explore all the layers of the archive, analyzing Lynn Hershman Leeson’s !Women Art Revolution project, a digital archive of feminist artists. She considers the archive as a memory laboratory, with case studies that include visitors’ encounters with archival materials in the Jewish Museum in Berlin. She discusses the importance of participatory archiving, examining the “multimedia roadshow” Digital Diaspora Family Reunion as an example. She explores the use of the archive in works that express the relationship between ourselves and our environment, citing Andy Warhol and Ant Farm, among others. And she looks at the transmission of the archive through the body in performance, bioart, and database artworks, closing with a detailed analysis of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Infinity Engine.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-vi
- List of Figures
- pp. x-xii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. xv-xxii
- 1 A Brief History of the Archive
- pp. 1-26
- 2 Archives as Archaeological Sites
- pp. 27-56
- 4 Diasporic Archives
- pp. 93-122
- 5 The Art of Archiving
- pp. 123-152
- 6 (A)live Archives
- pp. 153-180
- References
- pp. 185-202
Additional Information
ISBN
9780262335416
Related ISBN(s)
9780262035293
MARC Record
OCLC
964326969
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No