Between Memory and Document
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and the photographic in contemporary art, drawing a particular trajectory through works in the collection, of
artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Anselm Kiefer, Helena Almeida and Tracy Moffat, among others.
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Between Memory and Document - Ruth Rosengarten
UNTITLED
N.°6
Between Memory and Document:
the Archival Turn in Contemporary Art
Author
Ruth Rosengarten
Artistic Director
Pedro Lapa
Editorial Coordination
Clara Távora Vilar
Nuno Ferreira de Carvalho
Graphic Design
R2
All rights reserved.
© of the text: Ruth Rosengarten, 2013
© of the images: the artists, SPA and Fundação de
Arte Moderna e Contemporânea – Colecção Berardo, 2013.
Photo Credits
Paulo Raimundo (pp. 59, 60-61, 62, 63, 75)
David Rato (pp. 64-65, 68-69)
Digital publication (EPUB), first edition, 2013
ISBN 978-989-8239-29-7
Museu Coleção Berardo
Praça do Império. 1449-003 Lisboa. Portugal
+ 351 213 612 878
museuberardo@museuberardo.pt
The Museu Coleção Berardo was established in 2007 to bring to public attention the works of 20th and 21st century art in the Berardo Collection via temporary exhibitions, educational activities and publications.
Sem Título (Untitled) is a collection of small books in which invited authors contribute essays, using works from the collection as points of departure, offering a consideration of particular aspects of modern and contemporary art.
In her essay Between Memory and Document, Ruth Rosengarten deals with the links between the archival and the photographic in contemporary art, drawing a particular trajectory through works in the collection, of artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Anselm Kiefer, Helena Almeida and Tracy Moffat, among others.
– José Berardo
ISBN: 9789898239297
Contents
Title page
Copyright
About this collection
Foreword
Epigraph
Prologue
The Photograph and the Archive: Theory in Practice
The Archive and the Photograph
The Archival Turn
The Archival Turn: Specimen Cases from the Berardo Collection
The Mobile Archive: the Artist as Travelling Salesman
The Archive of Anonymous Structures
A Metonymic Relic and Objects of Attention Closely Lavished
The Archive of Intimate and Historical Knowledge
Selected Works from the Berardo Collection
Marcel Duchamp
Vito Acconci
Helena Almeida
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Christian Boltanski
Anselm Kiefer
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Tracy Moffat
Daniel Blaufuks
Credits
If modernism erased the notion of memory from artistic practice, converting its significance into a register of pure visuality, artists in the decades following World War II, and continuing to the present day, have endeavoured to revive this dimension, employing the most diverse forms and procedures. With the collapse in value of the grand narratives that previously gave specific order to the facts and data constituting 'knowledge,' the notion of the archive – a notion that, paradoxically, evolved more in the modern world than at any other time – has played an increasingly significant role. The archive is the privileged form granted to the accumulation and objective organisation of historic knowledge, and indeed even personal memory. Such archival objectivity is not, however, neutral. It bears the repository of a system of organisation of records and documents by a state, by diverse institutions, by a collection, a discipline, or simply by an individual subjectivity. Artistic practices of the past fifty years have explored the notion of the archive in such as way as to re-examine its meanings, and underlying concepts and concerns, as well as the power over memory that emerges from such explorations.
Based on an examination of works selected from the Museu Coleção Berardo, Ruth Rosengarten's essay traces the complex trajectories of the problems these works raise in relation to the potentialities of those artistic practices wishing to reclaim individual historical memory as testimony: a bulwark against forgetfulness.
Pedro Lapa
Artistic Director, Museu Coleção Berardo
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Dubravka Ugresic, The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
He orders Gapka to bring two