16.01.2014Plundering the Archive : Fragmentation, Appropriation and Representation in the Contemporary World

1) FRAGMENTATION

“the experience of the world in fragments, in which the passing of time means not progress but disintegration.” Walter Benjamin

Kurt SchwittersBlauer Vogel 1922

Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell, 1936)

Joseph CornellA Parrot for Juan Gris1953-54

Bruce Conner, opening sequence of A MOVIE (details from filmstrip), 1958

2) APPROPRIATION

“One need not look for new, as yet unseen images, but one must work with existing ones in such a way that they become new.” Harun Farocki

Marcel DuchampFontaine (1917)

Perfect Film (Ken Jacobs, 1985)

3) REPRESENTATION

William Wees :archival and found footage films “present images as images, as representations of the image-producing apparatus of cinema and television, but collage also promotes an analytical and critical attitude toward its images and their institutional sources”

SITUATION LEADING TO A STORY (Matthew Buckingham, 1999)

WHY COLONEL BUNNY WAS KILLED (Miranda Pennell, 2010)

4) THE ARTIST AS RESEARCHER