“[…] When artists employ historical archives as media is history affected?

[…] Where does the body belong among the ubiquity of images?

The hypothesis – that the archive as artwork challenges the notion of history as a discourse based primarily upon chronology and documentation – no longer presupposes a stable and retroactive archive, but often a generative one. Consequently, the historicizing process of contemporary art is frequently mise-en-abyme (..)

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