{"id":3085,"date":"2015-11-20T13:54:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T13:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2015-11-20T13:54:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T13:54:14","slug":"art-work-and-archives-performativity-and-the-techniques-of-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr1\/2015\/11\/20\/art-work-and-archives-performativity-and-the-techniques-of-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Art, Work, and Archives: Performativity and the Techniques of Production"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jane Birkin<\/strong>\u00a0is a\u00a0former doctoral candidate at Winchester School of Art, completing her practice-based PhD\u00a0in June 2015.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0Her essay\u00a0<\/em>‘Art, Work, and Archives: Performativity and the Techniques of Production’ was recently published in<\/em>\u00a0Archive Journal<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This\u00a0essay attempts to address the significance of my\u00a0longstanding working connection with image collections and archives. It explains how aspects of archival thinking permeate the practices of various artists (including my\u00a0own), notably through the application of performative working methods that position their work within an established genre of indexing and categorisation.<\/p>\n

Performativity is defined here as a two-step procedure: firstly the making of an instruction, and secondly the following of that instruction. This is at odds with the early designation by J.L. Austin, in How to Do Things with Words<\/em>, where the \u2018saying\u2019 and the \u2018doing\u2019 are one and the same thing. It also avoids the theatrical aspects that are often associated with performance art.<\/p>\n

The call for papers was on the theme of \u2018Radical Archives\u2019, and asked what this well-used term really means. The \u2018radical\u2019 that is so often perceived in relation to the archive in terms of radical content (punk archives and so on) is here differently defined through archival cataloguing techniques of ordering, description and listing. In the way of the \u2018readymade\u2019, these institutional techniques become radicalised<\/em> through their passage into art practice. The\u00a0use of archival description in relation to the photographic image (the subject of my\u00a0PhD thesis<\/a>) constitutes a radical form of writing and<\/em> reading the image, at odds with traditional hermeneutical analysis. It is an indexical rather than a representational approach, consistent with the recent material turn in photographic studies that is becoming a critical methodology in theory, practice and education, and frequently with reference to the \u2018archived\u2019 image.<\/p>\n

Read the essay here:<\/p>\n

Art, Work, and Archives: Performativity and the Techniques of Production<\/a><\/p>\n

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Jane Birkin\u00a0is a\u00a0former doctoral candidate at Winchester School of Art, completing her practice-based PhD\u00a0in June 2015.\u00a0\u00a0Her essay\u00a0‘Art, Work, and Archives: Performativity and the Techniques of Production’ was recently published in\u00a0Archive Journal.   This\u00a0essay attempts to address the significance of my\u00a0longstanding working connection with image collections and archives. It explains how aspects of archival thinking permeate … Continue reading “Art, Work, and Archives: Performativity and the Techniques of Production”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5371,"featured_media":3086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phd-seminar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/486\/2015\/11\/Archive.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}