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When artists perform the archive, and artists’s archives are exhibited as art installations; when the mass media is used as a medium for art making and exhibitions re-enact historical events by seamlessly combining documentary and fiction; when the past refuses tosettle and nature’s entropic processes are countered by a generative technology designed to upgrade and perpetuate itself-is history permanently undead?

from When documentation and Memory Refuse to Settle is the Archive Alive?
Simone Osthoff, Performing the Archive: The transformation of the archive in contemporary art from repository of documents to art medium 2009 | p.37