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Archives in the Age of Transformation of Art Institutions: An Art Preservation Strategy or a Curatorial Experiment?

Author(s): Kupková, MarikaSzűcsová, Monika

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This paper presents the development of the curatorial research project Black Box, which was established in the spring of 2020 in the Brno TIC Gallery to support contemporary art and artists at a time when artists and cultural institutions were affected by the existential crisis caused by the COVID-19 global pandemic. This experimental archive, which initially appeared to be temporary, has been developing its activities for a second year in a row. This text aims to provide a report on the ongoing remakes and postproductions of this archive and present various curatorial interventions carried out on the archived works of the participating artists. We observe a shift of exhibition institutions towards community centres with a diversified program, raising their social awareness and critical self-reflection, and building new means of communication on the axis of the artist-spectator. Especially in the latter area, creating and enabling access to an art archive is an essential tool.

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Kupková, Marika; Szűcsová, Monika: Archives in the Age of Transformation of Art Institutions: An Art Preservation Strategy or a Curatorial Experiment?. In: MAP - Media | Archive | Performance, Jg. 12 (2022), Nr. 1, S. 1. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/22288.
@ARTICLE{Kupková2022,
 author = {Kupková, Marika and Szűcsová, Monika},
 title = {Archives in the Age of Transformation of Art Institutions: An Art Preservation Strategy or a Curatorial Experiment?},
 year = 2022,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/22288}",
 volume = 12,
 address = {Leipzig},
 journal = {MAP - Media | Archive | Performance},
 number = 1,
 pages = {1--},
}
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