On the Subject of Archives
Volume 9 | Issue 1 | 2012
Marianne Hirsch and Diana Taylor Invited Editors
This double issue looks at archives as calls to action. Rather than stable repositories, archives here are imagined as acts and practices in transit that mobilize different media and are mobilized by them.
Essays
- Archivos visuales en la época de la desclasificación digital: aproximaciones al proyecto Human Rights / Copy Rights Cristián Gómez-Moya
- Artist Archives: Experimentation in Peruvian Art about the Memory of the Armed Conflict Olga Rodríguez Ulloa
- Comics as Archives: Meta***em***metamaus***em*** Hillary Chute
- On the Monumental Silence of the Archive Silvia Spitta
- Save As Diana Taylor
- The Live Archive of the World Stage: Engagement and Spectatorship in the United Nations Webcast James R. Ball III
- e9.1 Ensaio - Tras la visualidad del rostro esclavo AGNES LUGO-ORTIZ
- Venus en dos actos Saidiya Hartman
- Vidas vulnerables: secretos, ruidos y polvo MARIANNE HIRSCH AND LEO SPITZER
Multimedio
Dossier
- A Sensorial Archive of the Colombian Conflict Susana Wappenstein
- AIDS Activist Legacies and the Gran Fury of the Past/Present Marita Sturken
- Guantánamo: Seeing into the Dark Archive Mary Marshall Clark
- Immigrant Archives: The Afterlives of Objects Nancy K. Miller
- Liberating the Archive: An Interview with Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men Andy Bichlbaum and Marcial Godoy-Anativia
- Menos Días Aquí: Civilian Casualties, the Archive, and Naming Violent Murders in Mexico Alejandro Velez
- Reaching into the Archive: State Depictions of Identity in the Mexican Bicentennial Celebrations Jimena Lara Estrada
- Response to “Slow Violence and the BP Oil Crisis in the Gulf of Mexico: Militarizing Environmental Catastrophe” by Anne McClintock Hazel V. Carby
- Slow Violence and the BP Oil Crisis in the Gulf of Mexico: Militarizing Environmental Catastrophe Anne McClintock
- The Fabrication of History: the Anarchives of Occupy Wall Street #jez3Prez & Atchu
- e9.1 Dossier - The Undershirt Marcelo Brodsky
- Wandering the Camino Real: The Walking Archive and The Unreal, Silver-Plated Book Jennifer Flores Sternad
- War Drawings Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz
Book Reviews
- ***em***Black Mirror/Espejo Negro by Pedro Lasch***em*** Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye
- ***em***Curating Difficult Knowledge***em*** by Erica Lehrer Heather Vrana
- ***em***Dark Archive***em*** by Laura Mullen Michael Leong
- ***em***Diasporic Generations***em*** by Mette Berg Jesús E. Sanabria
- ***em***Havana Beyond the Ruins***em*** by Anke Birkenmaier Cecilia Aldarondo
- ***em***Hot Topics, Public Culture, Museums***em*** by Fiona Cameron Noelle Serafino
- ***em***La dramaturgia del espacio***em*** de Ramón Griffero Vivian Martínez Tabares
- ***em***La intensidad del acontecimiento***em*** de Mauricio Barría y Francisco Sanfuentes (eds.) Lorena Elízabeth Salas Ortíz
- ***em***Meanings of Violence in Contemporary Latin America***em*** by Gabriela Polit Anne Freeland
- ***em***Museums Matter***em*** by James Cuno Courtney Rivard
- ***em***River of Tears***em*** by Alexander Dent Lori Hall-Araujo
- ***em***Social Works***em*** by Shannon Jackson Jennifer Cayer
- ***em***The African American Theatrical Body***em*** by Soyica Colbert Katherine Zien
- ***em***The One and the Many***em*** by Grant Kester Lori Cole
- ***em***The Politics of Affect and Emotion in Contemporary Latin American Cinema***em*** by Laura Podalsky Paulina Suarez-Hesketh
Review Essays
- ***em***And So I Left***em*** by Georgia Wall Hilary Goldsmith
- ***em***Asco: Elite of the Obscure***em*** at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Megan Hoetger
- ***em***Cadencia en el país de las maravillas y sus amigos de la Cochinchina***em*** by Pedro Santaliz Ávila Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya
- ***em***Chungui: horror sin lágrimas***em*** de Luis Felipe Degregori María Eugenia Ulfe
- ***em***Clifford Owens: Anthology***em**** at MoMA PS1 Gillian Young
- ***em***Concierto para 3 machetes***em*** by Miguel Rodríguez Sepúlveda Amanda de la Garza Mata
- ***em***Granito: How to Nail a Dictator***em*** by Pamela Yates Fiorella Cotrina
- ***em***One More Dinner… or a Banquet in Tetlapa***em*** MUAC by Mónica Mayer Mireille Torres
- e9.1 Performance Review - Plegaría muda by Doris Salcedo Inês Beleza Barreiros
- ***em***Prefijos***em*** de María José Contreras Lorenzini Ivan Smirnow
- An Enormous Yearning for the Past: Movement/Archive in Two Contemporary Dance Works Victoria Fortuna
- Engaging Archival Power: Creative Time’s “Social Practices Archive” and the Living as Form Project Rachel Daniell
- Proyecto Archivos: el teatro documental según Vivi Tellas Pamela Brownell
- Toward a New Temporality and Archive of “Revolution”: Patricio Guzmán’s ***em***Nostalgia for the Light***em*** Tamara Lea Spira