The Materiality of the Archive: Creative Practice in Context [Paperback]

Part I - In the Archive: practices and encounters; 1. Material evidences surviving in the form of writing: materiality in archival theory and practice; 2 The true object of study: the material body of the analogue archive; 3 Archival/finding/aids and/perceptual/frames:/extending/material/contact/points through Stephen Chaplins/Slade School Archive Reader; 4 Archiving with scissors: materiality and cutting practices in photographic archives; Part II - With the archive: energy; 5 Valentines Jacket; 6 The archive as a site of making; 7 Applications of energy:/a study of artists and entropy in the material; 8 Archival endings: erosion and erasure in the film archive; Part III About the Archive: Technologies; 9 The material archive everyday: technologies of the filing system; 10 The materialism of techno-archival memory; 11 Paper tensions: from flipbooks to scanners  the role of paper in moving image practices; 12 Expressing materiality in archival records; Part IV Beyond the archive: expanding the frame;13 Lost unities: the materiality of the migrated archives; 14 Fabrications: the quilt as archive;15 Performing gestures towards the archive: queer fragments and other ways of mattering; 16 Thats special, well keep that: a conversation about counter archiving and socially engaged practice at Tate Exchange

The Materiality of the Archive is the first volume to bring together a range of methodological approaches to the materiality of archives, as a framework for their engagement, analysis and interpretation.

The Materiality of the Archive is the first volume to bring together a range of methodological approaches to the materiality of archives, as a framework for their engagement, analysis and interpretation.

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