Art and the Subversion of Archive
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The following text critically analyzes a common thesis on contemporary art: the archive is the “paradigm”, the privileged “metaphor”, or a clear “trend” of its practices. After a review of the main theoretical and historical works that have raised this problem, this article proposes another view of the relationship between art and archive. If the archive is defined as a social machine that organizes and manages both signs as our own bodies through various archiving technologies that define our present, some recent artistic strategies can be understood more as subversive than as subsidiaries of the archive. Therein is where the singularity of such practices lies
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