The topic of the archive, with its internal logic of selection, organization, accessibility, affects many different fields: curatorship and museology, cultural policies, media and digital technologies, open source and creative commons, collecting and artistic practices (mostly time-based), and more in general everything that is related to access and participation in the building of knowledge. “Roots§Routes” issue no. 33 questions this theoretical horizon, as well as the different forms of archiving in contemporary art. The Italian title "Archivio è potere" plays with the ambivalence of the word “potere” (power) as both a noun and a verb. Power as a form of control but also as the possibility to act and make a change. The literal English translation, Archive is power, does not permit to keep this ambivalence, but still highlights the core issue at stake.

Il tema dell’archivio e delle sue logiche interne di scelta, organizzazione, accessibilità taglia trasversalmente gli ambiti della curatela e della museologia, delle politiche culturali, dei media e delle tecnologie digitali, dell’open source e dei creative commons, del collezionismo e delle pratiche artistiche (soprattutto time-based), e più in generale tutto ciò che riguarda l’accesso e la partecipazione alla conoscenza. Il n. 33 di “Roots§Routes” si interroga su questo orizzonte teorico e sulle molteplici forme di archiviazione dell’arte contemporanea. Il titolo, "Archivio è potere", gioca sull’ambivalenza tra verbo e sostantivo: “potere” come forma di controllo ma anche come possibilità di azione e di cambiamento.

Archivio è potere/Archive Is Power

Baldacci Cristina
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2020-01-01

Abstract

The topic of the archive, with its internal logic of selection, organization, accessibility, affects many different fields: curatorship and museology, cultural policies, media and digital technologies, open source and creative commons, collecting and artistic practices (mostly time-based), and more in general everything that is related to access and participation in the building of knowledge. “Roots§Routes” issue no. 33 questions this theoretical horizon, as well as the different forms of archiving in contemporary art. The Italian title "Archivio è potere" plays with the ambivalence of the word “potere” (power) as both a noun and a verb. Power as a form of control but also as the possibility to act and make a change. The literal English translation, Archive is power, does not permit to keep this ambivalence, but still highlights the core issue at stake.
2020
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