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Organized by renowned scholar and ICP Adjunct Curator Okwui Enwezor, Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art will present works by leading contemporary artists who use archival documents to rethink the meaning of identity, history, memory, and loss.
Archive Fever: Photography between History and the Monument. Okwui Enwezor. The archive is first the law of what can be said, the system that governs the appearance of statements as unique events.
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Organized and written by renowned scholar and ICP Adjunct Curator Okwui Enwezor, and taking its title from Jacques Derrida's book of the same name, Archive Fever gathers leading...
Jan 18, 2008 · Organized by Okwui Enwezor, an adjunct curator at the center, it’s an exhibition in a style that’s out of fashion in our pro-luxe, anti-academic time, but that can still produce gems.
Apr 23, 2008 · Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, curated by Okwui Enwezor, explores a variety of ways in which contemporary artists appropriate, investigate, and reconfigure archival materials and structures. It focuses on photography and film while at the same time conducting, as Enwezor argues in his catalogue essay, “critical ...
Okwui Enwezor is adjunct curator at the International Center of Photography and is curator of the current show at ICP, Archive Fever. Enwezor is Dean of Academic Affairs at the San Francisco Art Institute, and has been Visiting Professor in Art History at the University of Pittsburgh.
Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary. By Okwui Enwezor. Göttingen: Steidl, 2008. 264 illustrations. Soft cover $45.00 ISBN 978-3-86521-622-9. During the last decade, there has been a growing world with the idea of "the archive." Influential Buchloh1 and Hal Foster,2 museum exhibitions.
