The Materiality of the Archive : Creative Practice in Context (Paperback)

Part I - In the Archive: practices and encounters; 1. ‘Material evidences surviving in the form of writing’: materiality in archival theory and practice; 2 ’The true object of study’: the material body of the analogue archive; 3 Archival?finding?aids and?perceptual?frames:?extending?material?contact?points through Stephen Chaplin’s?Slade School Archive Reader; 4 Archiving with scissors: materiality and cutting practices in photographic archives; Part II - With the archive: energy; 5 Valentine’s Jacket; 6 The archive as a site of making; 7 Applications of energy:?a study of artists and entropy in the material; 8 Archival endings: erosion and erasure in the film archive; Part III About the Archive: Technologies; 9 The material archive everyday: technologies of the filing system; 10 The materialism of techno-archival memory; 11 Paper tensions: from flipbooks to scanners ? the role of paper in moving image practices; 12 Expressing materiality in archival records; Part IV Beyond the archive: expanding the frame;13 Lost unities: the materiality of the migrated archives; 14 Fabrications: the quilt as archive;15 Performing gestures towards the archive: queer fragments and other ways of mattering; 16 ‘That’s special, we’ll keep that’: a conversation about counter archiving and socially engaged practice at Tate Exchange