With and Against the Archive

Transnational Memory Work and Archival Critique in the Artistic Practices of Akram Zaatari, Jumana Manna, and Farah Saleh
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ISBN: 978-3-8376-8165-9
Verlag: transcript

Buch, Englisch, Band 266, 262 Seiten, Kartoniert, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm

Reihe: Image

Archives are used not only as powerful tools of domination from above: They have also been used from below, as sites of resistance against erasure. Especially in postcolonial, postpartition, and postwar contexts, contemporary artists often navigate a tension between appropriating the position of the archivist as an emancipatory act and problematizing that very position from a transnational perspective. In doing so, they develop forms of memory work that liberate the archive from its national frame. Rebecca Hanna John sheds light on this understudied aspect of the archival turn in art, showing how Akram Zaatari, Jumana Manna, and Farah Saleh critically engage with archives in order to tell stories of transnational trajectories and entanglements.

Autoren/Hrsg.

John, Rebecca Hanna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

John, Rebecca Hanna
Rebecca Hanna John is an art historian specializing in postcolonial and transnational perspectives on art and culture. She studied art history, literature, and media studies at Universität Konstanz, Université Paris Diderot, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, receiving her PhD from Leuphana Universität Lüneburg as part of the DFG-funded graduate program Cultures of Critique.