Simone Osthoff

Publications by Simone Osthoff:

• Performing the archive: The transformation of the archive in Contemporary art from repository of documents to art medium

  by Simone Osthoff

  

  2009

  Paperback, 208 pages

  ISBN 0982530900

  Instead of smoothing over contemporary art's violent and iconoclastic dimensions, instead of sanitizing and making complex artworks docile in terms of archival possibilities, this book suggests we abandon our fantasy of mastery over representation and respond in kind to the archive-as-artwork, to "living" archives, and to reenactments of history...

  Publication Program: Think Media: EGS Media Philosophy Series