The materiality of the archive : : creative practice in context / / edited by Sue Breakell and Wendy Russell.

• Superior document: Routledge studies in archives
• TeilnehmendeR: Breakell, Sue,; Russell, Wendy (Archivist),
• Place / Publishing House: Abington, Oxon :, New York, NY : : Routledge,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge studies in archives
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 282 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: First published 2024 by Routledge.

"The Materiality of the Archive is the first volume to bring together a range of methodological approaches to the materiality of archives, as a framework for their engagement, analysis and interpretation. Focusing on the archives of creative practices, the book reaches between and across existing bodies of knowledge in this field, including material culture, art history and literary studies, unified by an interest in archives as material deposits and aggregations, in both analogue and digital forms, as well as the material encounter. Connecting a breadth of disciplinary interests in the archive with expanding discourses in materiality, contributors address the potential of a material engagement to animate archival content. Analysing the systems, processes and actions that constitute the shapes, forms and structures in which individual archival objects accumulate, and the underpinnings which may hold them in place as an archival body, the book considers ways in which the inexorable move to the digital affects traditional theories of the physical archival object. It also considers how stewardship practices such as description and metadata creation can accommodate these changes. The Materiality of the Archive unifies theory and practice and brings together professional and academic perspectives. The book is essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students working in the fields of archive studies, museology, art history and material culture"-- Provided by publisher

Table of Contents

1 ‘Material evidences surviving in the form of writing' : materiality in archival theory and practice / Alexandrina Buchanan – 2 'The true object of study' : the material body of the analogue archive / Sue Breakell – 3 Archival finding aids and perceptual frames : extending material contact points through Stephen Chaplin's Slade School Archive reader / Liz Bruchet – 4 Archiving with scissors : materiality and cutting practices in photographic archives / Costanza Caraffa – Part II With the archive: energy -- 5 Valentine's jacket / Maryanne Dever -- 6The archive as a site of making / Peter Lester – 7 Applications of energy : a study of artists and entropy in the material / Lisa Cianci – 8 Archival endings : erosion and erasure in the film archive / Elodie Roy – Part III About the archive: technologies -- 9 The material archive everyday : technologies of the filing system / Sarah Cain – 10 The materialism of techno-archival memory / Wolfgang Ernst – 11 Paper tensions : from flipbooks to scanners the role of paper in moving image practices / Amanda Egbe – 12 Expressing materiality in archival records / Athanasios Velios – Part IV Beyond the archive: expanding the frame -- 13 Lost unities : the materiality of the migrated archives / James Lowry and Forget Chatataera-Zambuko -- 14 Fabrications : the quilt as archive / Claire Smith – 15 Performing gestures towards the archive : queer fragments and other ways of mattering / Ben Cranfield – 16 'That's special, we'll keep that' : a conversation about counter archiving and socially engaged practices at Tate Exchange / Sarah Haylett, Lucy Bayley, Cara Courage, Julia LePla, Pip Laurenson, Hélia Marçal and Kit Webb -- Index