Installation Art and the Practices of Archivalism

<p>On the leading edge of trauma and archival studies this timely book engages with the recent growth in visual projects that respond to the archive focusing in particular on installation art. It traces a line of argument from practitioners who explicitly depict the archive (Samuel Beckett Christian Boltanski Art & Language Walid Raad) to those whose materials and practices are archival (Mirosław Bałka Jean-Luc Godard Silvia Kolbowski Boltanski Atom Egoyan). Jones considers in particular the widespread nostalgia for ‘archival’ media such as analogue photographs and film. He analyses the innovative strategies by which such artefacts are incorporated examining five distinct types of archival practice: the intermedial testimonial personal relational and monumentalist.</p>