Productive Archiving: Artistic Strategies, Future Memories & Fluid Identities

How artists have devised creative solutions to the taxonomic constraints of the archive

This critical anthology addresses three often-overlooked issues facing archival organizations: the question of inclusion in or exclusion from the archive; the loss of individuality and specificity in the archive; the danger of homogenization; and the risk that archiving may foster a form of pigeonholing. Since the archive is a fundamental symbolic entity, on the basis of which we organize our lives, the p...