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    Text from THE ARCHIVE, Documents of Contemporary At Series. Ecited by Charles Merewether. MIT Press, (Cambridge and Whitechapel Gallery. London. 2006. Hal Foster ‘An Archival Impulse//2004 Consider a temporary dipay cobbled together out of woday materials he Cariboo lun lane packing tape, and ie, ke a hmerade stl Shrine with chaotic ara of ma, texts Sd estonia devoted 3a frist writer e pllsopher Ora fy salon that juxtaposes mode ef lox earthwork with gas from the ci igh movement andr recordings from the legendary wok cancers of he ime Of na more pristine reise, Shor imc meditation on te ge acoustic rece tha wee Dl the emtshcot between the World Wer but soon abandoned s outmoded pecs of riary technology. However daparate sm subject, appearance an fet {hese worthy the Swit artist Thomas Hisar the Amencan am Dura dnd the Englishwoman Tacta Dean ~ share a nation of asic patie as an idorynert probing no paral eatures objects and eves inde a philosophy ad istry. “The example could be mali many tes (as eter practoners sight begin with the Scotsman Doulas Caron, he Englsan Lim ilek, {he lshman Gerard yn, the Canaan Stan Douglas, the Frenchmen Pie Hyg ane Philippe Parrena, the Americans Mark Din ad Rene Geen but these tre alone point an archival imple a work international 0 onerporry art. Ths enealimpule x arly new was vty ce 19 the rear period when the repetoie ofaures was extended bah polly tnd techlopiealy (ea. i te photoes of Aleksandr Rodchenko andthe hocmontapes of Jon Heartland it was even ore varios ative inthe Dostnar prod especialy a appropriated nape and serial ora becane oman idioms (eg inte pn-board aesthetic ofthe indepen Group, femeduated representations fom Robert Raichenberg though Ricard Price, ft the ffrtona truce of Concept a, esrutnalctique an feminist at) Yeah acho pe wth since character a it Om It azin pervasive - ean tobe considered a tendency i sow ih and that mach alone ir weleone: Inheritance achat sekto mak ister infirmaton often lost or cele pysaly present. To this end they elaborate onthe fone image object and tent and favour the installation format as they dos. (Frequent they ust nonhiarhclspaaly to advantage — whichis rather ‘ate lncontemporary rt) Some practioner, such as Doulas Gordon. rvitate toward me readmades, tat sual parative that re sampled in image Yama cee p43 rotons, asin his extreme versions of fms by Alte Hiehcock, Martin Scorsese and other? These sures are aia, awn from the archives of rae clare to ensure Heyy hat can then be dsr or dtu; bat they can alo be obscure, retrieved in 3 gene of alieratve Koad ‘runt memay Such wor il be focus ev Soncemes sec sampling pas the postmodernist complications of ‘tgnality an authors to ante Coser acolaborativ proce 10 Cou Sa (199-2002) ed by Pee Haye aed PilippePreno wen S topanese aviation compony ofeed to sell ome of fe minor maga {arate hey Bag one Sn pessoa Anke boat ‘his yp in various pices, anid ther atts to do he same Here the project became chi of project's yma str that produced] forms ‘at are prt oft alto Becme he story of community ha fn Hsin fnlimage ~in an image archive inthe making” French rte Nias Bou fas championed such art under the 1wbric of “pos producti, which “nercores the scondary aniaations often cnsittve fe the erm lhosiggest a changed statsin the work oft nan age ef dpa iatormatin, ‘which sd oll those of nit poco ad mass consumption” “Tatauenanen age ene a sch a deco assump: tay. awe, Information dsr often apes 3 wit readjnade, 2 50 much dt oe repressed and sent n,n any ast divertor sample and sha a vayser working “Tiss point mightily tht he es mcium of aca the meas archive of he internet, and over the ast deca ems tha evoke the ectonic eso, suc epitome nso, have peed a place shes {he tener tor of neat. Bm ost aca athe acl means ‘plied to thee eatona ends are ar more atl apd facet-fae than a) ‘Wie xrfce Te ares tse hee ae nat xtabases this ese they ae rearanty material fagrenany athe than fungi nas such they {al ut for human interpretation, oot machine reprocessing” Athoug the ‘ens his a are hat ncsctiminae they remain indeterminate the contents of any archive an fen ey ae presented a his ashin = 830 ay pomissry noe frre abr o¢ enigmatic proms er stu Seen? In this tepid aha a is as much preproduction asc Drstpredaction: concerned les with aso npn than mh bce waces {pertaps ‘anarchism’ isthe tre appropriate pase) these att are ‘fen drawn to unfilled begonags or incomplete projets ~ in art and in ison aie = aright offer poins of departre gai, arta fers fom database ac ts aso dtp rom art ocsed on | ‘me museum, Cerny the Rare othe ast-as-achvit allows hat ofthe eyvconresanions aris. ae-cratar, and some aca arts continue topo the tego of the election. Yer the ae not 35 concerned with erties of representations teat ad institonl iter that the museum Is ruined a a coberent ‘stem in pub sphere i geerly assed ot triumphantly roamed ot Ielancolialy pondered, and sme ofthese att naget eter Kinds of ‘oderng = within the museum and witout. Inti tespet the aetation of Srl at often mere netutve thn destruct. mae tepstive than aly, the work question is archial sinc it ot nly dawson informal aves but profaces them a well and dots ina way tht uncescores the ‘acre ofall archival mateals as found yet emsricted atl ye ft, publyet pavate Furer,ieten ranges these mater according toa. qas- srchival ope, 2 matteo cation and Juxapostio, and presents them in 3 ‘quas-arcival architecture a complex f texts and objects 2gan pao, stations, sk. Thus Dean peas of het metho a eolletion Duan of sa combination Hschhor of hia Tato and mach achat dacs appear to rami ke a weed ora shigome’ (a Dsew2en top that eters employ aswell! Perhaps al archives deel in this way. thrash mations of fonnection and connection. a proces hat this at als serves to doe. "Laboratory storage toi space. yes" Hischarn eat, 1 want use hese fermsin my worktomake spaces for te mavement sd endetanesf aking * Suc atte practice nam arbi Bl. ‘Atal comment onthe wil to conect what cannot be connect nach {ar Azali ot a Wl taal 0 mucha wl oat to probe a Imspaced past. collate ts diferent signs (sometimes pragmatics, Sometimes paris) 1 ascertain what ight rman fr the preset. Yet this wi © connect ienugh alone tng he arcval impulse fom the legal inate stibted to pormoserns by Craig Gwen: for ese [ssa subnets alegovel agmentason anno long conden posed {inst an authontatve smbote totaly (wheter aracsed with aesthetic {utonomy, formalist hegemony, molerist casoicty, or masclinist ominaton. By the same token this ipa 6 not anomie inthe manner

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