Yet an archival impulse with a distinctive character of its own is again pervasivenenough so to be considered a tendency in its own right, and that much alone is welcome. The archive is first the law of what can be said, the system that governs the. Nuit et brouillard night and fog, alain resnais, 1952, 30 min guest. Over the past thirty years, successive generations have taken wideranging approaches to the photographic and filmic archive.
Okwui enwezor, archive fever uses of the document in contemporary art. Sharjah art foundation announces the late okwui enwezor as. Uses of the document in contemporary art 2008, numerous historians, curators. Okwui enwezor writing on the archive fever exhibition 2008. Uses of the document in contemporary art will present works by leading contemporary artists who use archival documents to rethink the meaning of identity, history, memory, and loss.
Uses of the document in contemporary art by okwui enwezor for the international center for photography. Uses of the document in contemporary art curated by okwui enwezor at the international center of photography in new york has never been subjected to close examination. The conference emerged from the freud museums fundraising campaign and was held at somerset house, london. The native, a member of the khoikhoi group called gorachouqua, was named coree at the time of the arrival of an english fleet of ships to table bay around. Okwui enwezor 23 october 1963 15 march 2019 was a nigerian curator, art critic, writer, poet, and educator, specializing in art history. Americas at 43rd street, will present archive fever. Uses of the document in contemporary art at the international center for photography in new york, an exhibition that included the same work by jef geys that had been on view in enwezors documenta11. The undutiful daughters concept of archival metabolism. Pdf fabrizio gitto, archive fever di okwui enwezor 2008. But curator okwui enwezor proclaims in the shows catalogue that. Okwui enwezor interview, 1997 jul 1997 exerpts from an interview by pat binder and gerhard haupt, publishers of universes in universe, with the artistic director of the 2nd johannesburg biennale, which took place on july 5th 1997 that means, still during the preparation phase of the biennale.
The materials in their archival fonds consist of photographs, films, videos, notebooks, sculptures, and texts. Conceptual art, institutional critique, and feminist art. Uses of the document in contemporary photography, exh. May 01, 2020 archive fever enwezor pdf archive fever. Documenta 11 rests on five platforms which aim to describe the present location of culture and its interfaces with other complex, global. At least it is to my way of thinking at a time whennartistically as much as politicallynalmost any. Organized and written by renowned scholar and icp adjunct curator okwui enwezor, and taking its title from jacques derridas book of the same name. Okwui enwezor sees the archive as a place chains of the archives through artistic or. The site link provides access to a pdf of the media release which gives a useful. Journal of contemporary african art, duke university press, 19942019. Organised and written by renowned scholar and icp adjunct curator okwui enwezor, and taking its title from jacques derridas book of the same name, archive.
Mar 15, 2019 okwui enwezor was a nigerian curator, art critic, writer, poet, and educator, specializing in art history. Okwui enwezor, a native of nigeria, was the first noneuropean art director of documentaand the first documenta of the new millennium was the first truly global, postcolonial documenta exhibition. Organized by okwui enwezor, an adjunct curator at the center, its an exhibition in a style thats out of fashion in our proluxe, antiacademic time. Okwui enwezor was a nigerian curator, art critic, writer, poet, and educator, specializing in art history. Uses of the document in contemporary art, international center of photography icp. New european painting emerged in the 1980s and reached a critical point of major distinction and influence in the 1990s with painters like gerhard richter, sigmar polke, georg baselitz, anselm kiefer and bracha ettinger whose paintings have established and continue to create a new dialogue between the historical archive, american abstraction and figuration. Jacques derrida published his famous essay archive fever. Postmodernity, contemporaneity, duke university press, 2008, pdf. Again, many other artists could be considered here as well, and the archival is only one aspect of the work that i do discuss.
As derrida notes, the greek etymology of archive connotes both commencement. Navigating spaces, terra incognita and the art archive. In the spring of 2008, okwui enwezor organised archive fever. In 1982, after a semester at the university of nigeria, enwezor moved to the bronx, new york, at the age of 18. Ideology and fantasy in contemporary south african representation, third text 40. Okwui enwezor, curator of the exhibition archive fever uses of the document in contemporary art at the international center of photography, will sit down with paul holdengraber to talk about the archival impulse at work in museums, libraries, and in various artistic practices. Steidl and international center of photography, 2008, pp. Uses of the document in contemporary art, held at the international center for photography in new york, and earlier college art association panels dedicated entirely to the subject. A close reading of okwui enwezors modernity and postcolonial ambivalence postcolonialism and globalization april 26, 2010 a story is told of the first south african to travel abroad.
Organized by renowned scholar and icp adjunct curator okwui enwezor, the exhibition presents works by leading contemporary artists who use photographic images to rethink the meaning of identity, history, memory, and loss. About the author fawz kabra fawz kabra is a writer and curator currently based in new york. Uses of the document in contemporary art, exhibition catalogue, international center of photography, new york 2008, p. How okwui enwezor changed the art world next year, the nigerianborn curator and writer will become the first african director of the venice biennale, where hell continue his careerlong project.
Okwui enwezor 23 october 1963 15 march 2019 was a nigerian. See also the related artistic turn to the archive discussed in hal foster, an archival impulse, october 110 fall 2004. Photography between history and the monument okwui enwezor the archive is first the law of what can be said, the system that governs the appearance of statements as unique events. Hassan and chika okekeagulu, with the support of an advisory committee including david adjaye, john akomfrah and christine tohmesharjah art foundation saf in sharjah, uae, today announced the renowned critic and curator okwui enwezor 19632019 as curator of the next. A freudian impression 1995 is the title given to a published lecture translated from the french given by jacques derrida at a weekend conference memory the question of archive in june 1994. But the archive is also that which determines that all these things said do not accu. Photography between history and monument, in archive fever. It has something like the same suspenseful pace, without the focused story line. Feb 04, 2008 organized and written by renowned scholar and icp adjunct curator okwui enwezor, archive fever presents works by leading contemporary artists who use archival documents to rethink the meaning of identity, history, memory, and loss. The familial millennial exhibition essay by lauren marsden. Organized by renowned scholar and icp adjunct curator okwui enwezor, archive fever.
Uses of the document in contemporary art, international center of photography, new york. Students produce performancesand projects that interact with course readings and. Uses of the document in contemporary art, new york, n. Giorgio agamben, the archive and testimony, 1989 merewether 038040 screening. Michael foucault, archaeology of knowledge, trans a. Photography between history and the monument, in archive fever. Organized and written by renowned scholar and icp adjunct curator okwui enwezor, and taking its title from jacques derridas book of the same name, archive fever gathers leading contemporary artists who use archival materials in the fabrication of their work. As derrida notes, the greek etymology of archive connotes both commencement and. Photography between history and the monument, pp 1051. Despite its success, the 2008 exhibition archive fever. Archive fever exhibition in new york took ramification and the mutations of connection further by. For more about archive as form in contemporary art, see okwui enwezor, archive fever. Tags video documentary artist project performance exhibitions research books archive.
Uses of the document in contemporary photography by okwui enwezor pp. Photography between history and the monument, archive fever. Uses of the document in contemporary art, international centre for photography, new york 2008. Mapping the atlas group archive adrienne connelly a thesis. And the 2003 venice biennale, directed by francesco bonami, featured.
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