Analysing the archive as a method for making and transmitting new historical discourses A case study: Re.Act.Feminism #2: A performing archive
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2017-07-11
Garazi Ansa Arbelaiz
Abstract
The attempts to value the work of female artists are increasing, and, consequently, new historical discourses that challenge the official androcentric narratives are being created, thanks above all, to the second wave of feminism and to feminist theories. Thus, this article is part of this trend, since we analyze one of the exhibition methods used for this purpose: the archive. Specifically, we study the creation of new unofficial archives and their subsequent presentation through the exhibition, as a strategy that enables visibility and creates new historical discourses, disassociating from the modes and systems of creation of patriarchal narrative and normative. We made this analysis through the case study Re.Act.Feminism # 2: A performing archive, an itinerant exhibition, whose core was an archive that compiles the documentation of the performances related to the feminist theories and performed by female artists.
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Ansa Arbelaiz, Garazi. 2017. “Analysing the Archive As a Method for Making and Transmitting New Historical Discourses: A Case Study: Re.Act.Feminism #2: A Performing Archive”. AusArt 5 (1). https://doi.org/10.1387/ausart.17885.
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Keywords
ARCHIVE, EXHIBITION, FEMINISM, PERFORMANCE, HISTORICAL DISCOURSES
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Bauer, Ute Meta. 2011. "Espacios escritos: La exposición como arquitectura del discurso". En Los lugares de la crítica, simposio internacional [The place(s) of criticism: International symposium], Ángela Molina Climent dir., 21-46. Pamplona: UPNA
Bennet, Tony. 1998. The birth of the museum. History, theory, politics, New York: Routledge
Breitwieser, Sabine. 2011. "Ocupar espacios: Aspectos políticos del comisariado de exposiciones y la dirección de instituciones artísticas", En Los lugares de la crítica, simposio internacional [The place(s) of criticism : international symposium], Ángela Molina Climent dir., 59-78. Pamplona: UPNA
Danbold, Mathias. 2014. "Arresting performances". En Re.Act.Feminism: A performing archive, Bettina Knaup & Beatrice Ellen Stammer, eds., 96-108. Nüremberg: Verlag für Moderne Kunst
Farr, Ian, ed. 2012. Memory Documents of Contemporary Art. London: Whitechapel
Foucault, Michel. (1989) 2002. La arqueología del saber. Traducción de Aurelio Garzón del Camino. Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI
Guasch, Ana María. 2011. Arte y archivo, 1920-2010: Genealogías, tipologías y discontinuidades, Madrid: Akal
Hellman, Geoffrey T. 1960. "Profiles: Imperturbable Noble," New Yorker (7 May)
Kapur, G., 2007. "Curating: In the public sphere". En: Cautionary tales: Critical curating, Steven Rand and Heather Kouris, eds., 56-68 New York: Apexart
Knaup, Bettina & Beatrice Ellen Stammer, eds. 2014. Re.Act.Feminism: A performing archive. Nüremberg: Verlag für Moderne Kunst
Macdonald, Sharon. 2001. The politics of display: Museums, science, culture. New York: Routledge
Merewether, Charles, ed. 2006. The archive documents of Contemporary Art. London: Whitechapel
Montehermoso.net [web oficial Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea] 2016. Acceso 23 sept., www.montehermoso.net
Newhouse, Victoria. 2005. Art and the power of placement. New York: Monacelli
Nochlin, Linda. (1971) 1988. "Why have there been no great women artists?" En: Women, Art and power and other essays, 147-58. Boulder, Co: Westview
Nora, Pierre. 2012. "Realms of memory". En Memory Documents of Contemporary Art, Charles Merewether, ed., 61-6. London: Whitechapel
O'Doherty, Brian, 2011. Dentro del cubo blanco: La ideología del espacio expositivo. Traducción, Leña Peñate Spice Murcia: CENDEAC
Osborne, Thomas. 1999. "The ordinariness of the archive". History of the Human Sciences 12(2): 53
Osthoff, Simone, ed. 2009. Performing the archive: The transformation of the archive in contemporary art from repository of documents to art medium. Nueva York: Atropos
Phelan, Peggy. (1993) 2011. "Ontología del performance: Representación sin reproducción", En: Estudios avanzados de performance, Diana Taylor & Marcela Fuentes, eds., 91-122. México DF: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Pierce, Sarah. 2007. "A politics of interpretation". En Curating Subjects, Paul O'Neill, ed., 159-73. London: Open Editions
Schneider, Rebecca. 2011. Performing remains art and war in times of theatrical reenactment. New York: Routledge
Sheik, Simon, 2007. "Constitutive effects: The techniques of the curator". En Curating Subjects, Paul O'Neill, ed., 174-85. London: Open Editions
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. 2006. "The Rani of Sirmur: An essay in reading the archives introduction". En: The archive documents of Contemporary Art,. Charles Merewether, ed., 163-69. London: Whitechapel
Spooner, Cally, 2008. "The task of the translator", En: A fine red line: A curatorial miscellany, Yannis Arvanitis et al., eds., 61-3. London: IM Press
Staniszewski, Mary Anne. 1998. The power of display: A history of exhibition installations at the museum of modern art. Cambridge MA: MIT
Taylor, Diana & Marcela Fuentes, eds. 2011. Estudios avanzados de performance. México DF: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Wright, Stephen. 2013. Toward a lexicon of usership. Eindhoven NL: Van Abbemuseum
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