Tuesday, 30 August 2016

Week 5: Discussion


Library, Museums, Archives, Social Media, Galleries 

The archive acts as: 
- Social (Collective) memory 
- storage unit 
-a repostory for social, cultural, political ideas & values 

- Anthropology Study of human society & culture
   - Ethnograph
focus on cultural practice + values 
  
- Archeology
study of societies + cultures through material culture 

- History - Histories 
writing narratives taking archives 

- Story-Telling 

Ways of Working

  • Documenting the ephemeral 
  • tell an untold story produce new documents/archive
  • disrupt categories/orders
  • create archive to study "typologies"  
  • destabilise meaning recontextulise icons

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