Artpool40 – Active Archives and Art Networks
International Conference of the Artpool Art Research Center
February 20–21, 2020 Museum of Fine Arts, Schickedanz Hall, Budapest
- Concept | Call | Program | Abstracts and Videos | Biographies | Photo Gallery
- Abstracts and Videos
Agustina Andreoletti | Zdenka Badovinac | David Crowley | Katalin Cseh-Varga | Mela Dávila Freire | Lina Džuverović | Meghan Forbes | Daniel Grúň | Sarah Haylett | John Held | Roddy Hunter – Judit Bodor | Jasna Jakšić – Tihana Puc | Klara Kemp-Welch | Kaja Kraner | Emese Kürti | Karolina Majewska-Güde | Lívia Páldi | Henar Rivière | Sven Spieker | Kristine Stiles | Katalin Timár | Tomasz Załuski | Elisabeth Zimmermann
Zdenka Badovinac [Biography]
Self-Historicization – Artists’ Archives in Eastern Europe
Abstract:
Self-historicization is an informal system of historicization practiced by artists who, due to the absence of any suitable institutional work, are themselves compelled to search for their own historical/interpretive context. My contribution will reflect on the impact that artists’ archives have on changing the understanding of historicizing, and consequently, of the museum.
Museums and collections are still too classified and made to the measure of the collective memory of the dominant communities. We will need different, more hybrid institutions in the future so that art and other diverse material can formulate stories together, no longer being restricted by the classification systems of collections. Museums based on the principles of artists’ archives will be better suited to such stories.