Art from the Archive
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9024129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ferdinand De Jong (0000-0001-9499-2546, Department of Cultural Heritage, corresponding author), Elizabeth Harney (Institute of Contemporary Art) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1-4 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Arts (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9933 • E-ISSN: 1937-2108 |
| Publisher | MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/afar_a_00211 |
| OpenAlex | W1969517231 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 10 |
Mbembe (2010) have struggled to rethink African subjectivity and define a register that does not reduce the continent to eternal suffering or victimhood. The current interest in the archive is driven by a strong desire to examine the temporal and spatial mechanisms that have delivered us to a “posthistorical” moment of contemporaneity. In this context, contemporary artists have started to revisit the colonial archives (Demos 2013). Such returns are not gratuitous, but rather display serious engagements with the colonial past, present the possibility to inter vene in that history, and sate the desire to imagine an alternative future. Returns to the archive enable artists to tack backwards and forwards in time and to address perceived problems in the present. In this special issue, articles examine some of these questions in the work of individual African artists as they intervene in archival
Art · Geography · Visual arts · African history and culture studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Digital and Traditional Archives Management
A Natural-Worker Leaves the Colonial Visual Archive
The art practice of Carlos Motta and the archive as tool for re-enactment and communication
Artists’ archives and the sites of memory in Cairo and Algiers
If You Were in My Sneakers
Archive of Darkness
A Pan-African Space in Cape Town? The Chimurenga Archive of Pan-African Festivals
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |