Ines Schaber: Notes on Archives
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Ines Schaber: Notes on Archives 2. Culture Is Our Business
Ines Schaber: Notes on Archives 3. Picture Mining
Ines Schaber: Notes on Archives 4. Dear Jadwa
Stefan Pente, Ines Schaber: Notes on Archives 5. Unnamed Series
Ed. by Ines Schaber (eng.).
Archive Books, Berlin; Edition Camera Austria, Graz 2018–19.
Analogue to the projects shown in the exhibition at Camera Austria, the five-volume publication series was developed in collaboration with Archive Books. The release of three books coincided with the exhibition opening, two more followed in autumn 2019.
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Notes on Archives is a series of publications by artist Ines Schaber about archives and the practices we conduct in relation to them. Produced over the course of more than ten years, the publications feature a series of case studies, research, concrete projects, and reflections on the questions and problems that image archives pose today. The aim of the work is not to find or create another institutional archive per se, but to develop a practice in which the set of problems that archives produce is in fact part of the process one engages in.
The artist understands the archive as a place of negotiation and writing. “There is no political power without control of the archive, if not of memory. Effective democratization can always be measured by this essential criterion: the participation in and the access to the archive, its constitution, and its interpretation,” writes Jacques Derrida.