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Assignment 7: Place and Time in the Archive
Creative Archive Summary of Understanding To archive seems a very human response to situations. By this I mean it is common for people to want to collect things related to…
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Exercise 3: Respond to an event to archive
I have already started to post some initial ideas here. I would like to incorporate spirals into the archive somewhere as they are a motif I keep returning to. I…
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Aby Warburg’s work Mnemosyne Atlas (1924–1929)
Description Warburg’s attempt to ‘map the afterlife of antiquity’, focused on the renaissance. He chose Mnemosyne, the Greek goddess of memory and mother of the muses, as the patron saint…
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Exercise 2: Case Study Analysis
Susan Hiller Zoe Leonard and Cheryl Dunye Ilya an Emilia Kabakov Case Study 1: Susan Hiller, Witness (2000) Description Witness is a sound installation, but also an archive. The installation consists…
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Exercise 1: An Archival Impulse
Reflective Notes Idiosyncratic collections probing into particular figures, objects and events. There are many examples in art of these archival impulses. It was active prewar and even more so after.…
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Archives
According to Sue Breakall an archive is…. ‘time and space bound, perpetually connected to events in the past’ Sue Breakall, ‘Perspectives: Negotiating the Archive’, Tate Papers no. 9, Spring, (2008).…
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Jeremy Deller – The Battle of Orgreave Archive (An Injury to One is an Injury to All)
Initial Five Words conflictmonochrometimeunionpower Three questions How selective are the pieces? Is this a balanced view? Why are some things on the wall and some in cabinets? Description The archive…
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Archive ideas
This is just a brainstorming list of things I could potentially make an archive of. I will keep coming back to expand the ideas. Spirals Desks History of work Druidry…
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Assignment 6: The Politics of Place
This is another assignment I just want to get submitted before I go on holiday so that I can return to it and reflect further on the themes when I…
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Exercise 3: Politics/Control
Reading – Dean, T. and Millar, J (2005) ‘Room Five: Politics / Control’ In: Dean, T. and Millar, J (eds.) Place. London: Thames & Hudson. pp. 105-131. Place is always political.…
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Wider Research on Place
FOR_SITE project, Sanctuary In 2017, in response to Donald Trump’s proposed travel ban which would bar people from majority Muslim countries from travelling to America, FOR-SITE launched a new project…
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Nathan Coley – A Place Beyond Belief
Nathan Coley is a Glaswegian artist who produces text-based work. Coley’s exhibition A Place Beyond Belief was first shown at Haunch of Venison in 2012 and included a range of photographic and sculptural work…
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