The Actuality of the Archive in Art. Possible Analysis Tools

Authors

  • Lucía Gentile Facultad de Bellas Artes. Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Keywords:

Archive, poetics of the archive, Latin American art, critical art

Abstract

The impulse to archive that turns the archive into a relevant subject in the artistic field can derive in the neutralization of the practices that in their contexts of production and circulation loaded a critical power that was activated, but that with their institutionalization to the interior of the archive they become a fetish and lose that initial power. Thinking a poetics of the archive is crucial to counteract this possibility. We wonder about the possible ways to approach an analysis tending to observe these poetics.

Published

2017-12-01

How to Cite

Gentile, L. (2017). The Actuality of the Archive in Art. Possible Analysis Tools. Nimio, (4), 113–119. Retrieved from https://papelcosido.fba.unlp.edu.ar/ojs/index.php/nimio/article/view/548

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Essays