Hal Foster An Archival Impusle

Hal Foster (2004 p145) “...the nature of all archival materials are found yet constructed, factual yet fictive, public yet private”.
Foster’s An Archival Impulse argues that there is a growing interest in artists using the idea of the archive within their work. Charles Merewether’s The Archive also discusses the growth of this within contemporary art practices, and supports this idea in reference to the accessibility to the archive through digital means. I wish to explore this idea through my research into artists such as Susan Hiller who use material in an archival format. For example, From the Freud Museum (1991) is of particular relevance to my work in terms of the use of documentation and inclusion of different mediums, from photographs to writings and ephemera.


http://www.doublearchive.com/pdf/Foster_An_Archival_Impulse.pdf