PUBLIC 57: Archive/Counter-Archives
PUBLIC 57: Archive/Counter-Archives has just been published. It includes articles by Gabriela Aceves, Alejandra Bronfman, Maia Dawson, Kate Hennessy and Trudi Lynn Smith. We are grateful to editors Susan Lord, Janine Marchessault, and May Chew for this opportunity to present our work among such incredible company!
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Editors: May Chew | Susan Lord | Janine Marchessault
ARCHIVE/COUNTER-ARCHIVES advances conversations regarding the changing nature and political realities of audio and visual heritage in the twenty-first century. Bringing together artists, archivists, and researchers, this issue of PUBLIC argues that the re-thinking of audio-visual heritage preservation is ultimately strategic and political, especially given the precarious material conditions of archives in the digital era, and the fact that colonial and racialized forms of structural control over the history of place and belonging continue to embargo access to the past for many communities. This issue thus turns towards the transformative potential of counter-archives, which can be political, ingenious, resistant, and community-based. These insurgent archives are embodied differently and have explicit intention to historicize differently, to disrupt conventional national narratives, and to write difference into public accounts. PUBLIC 57 also brings to the fore the work of women and Indigenous, racialized, diasporic, and LGBT2Q+ communities to create counter-archives that expand, interrogate, and disrupt conventional archives and archival methodologies.
CONTRIBUTORS
Hend F. Alawadhi
Alejandra Bronfman, Maia Dawson, and Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda
Mark V. Campbell
Danica Evering
Shawna Ferris, Kiera L. Ladner, Danielle Allard, and Micheline Hughes
Blair Fornwald and Barbara Meneley
Benj Gerdes and Lasse Lau
Kate Hennessy and Trudi Lynn Smith
Mél Hogan
Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens
Brett Kashmere
Mary Kidd and Marie Lascu
Adam Lauder
Mary Elizabeth Luka and Brian Lilley
Sabrina Perić
Benjamin P.F. Prus
Juan Carlos Rodríguez
Steph Schem Rogerson
Catherine Russell
Adam Siegel
Danielle Taschereau Mamers
Alanna Thain
Cheryl Thompson
Mark David Turner
Jennifer VanderBurgh
EXHIBITION REVIEWS
K. Hart | Liz Ikiriko | Treva Michelle Legassie
BOOK REVIEWS
Amy Luo | Joshua Synenko
296 pages | Full colour
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