Exhibiting the Archive
eBook - ePub

Exhibiting the Archive

Space, Encounter, and Experience

  1. 226 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Exhibiting the Archive

Space, Encounter, and Experience

About this book

Exhibiting the Archive examines the role that exhibition plays in archives and analyses the impact they are understood to have on how users and visitors experience the archive.

Drawing on research conducted in Europe, North America and Australia, the book analyses the key theoretical and social influences on exhibition-making in archives today and discusses the role of exhibitions in the archives of tomorrow. This is the first in-depth study to consider exhibition as more than outreach or advocacy: it frames exhibition as an encounter with archives and with people, and interprets it as a mechanism for change within the archive. Against a backdrop of increasing digital activity, Lester asks what experience within the physical space of the archive could be. Drawing on ideas of spatiality and embodiment, as well as social justice and activism, Lester considers the role of exhibitions within the physical archive and the part they can play in reshaping how experience is understood to happen within it.

Exhibiting the Archive offers a new perspective on the archive that will be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of archives and records. The discussions of cutting-edge practice offer new insights into how exhibitions are conceived and made, and will therefore be of interest to practitioners around the world.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Series Page I
  4. Series Page II
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Dedication Page
  8. Contents
  9. List of figures
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. List of Abbreviations
  12. Introduction
  13. 1 Conversations about Exhibitions
  14. 2 Spatial and Temporal Encounters
  15. 3 Experience in the Archive
  16. 4 Exhibition-Making in the Archive: Fragment, Context, Performativity
  17. 5 Exhibitions as Sites of Activism: Reflecting, Challenging, Harnessing
  18. 6 Archives+, Manchester: Reshaping Space
  19. 7 The Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen: Encountering the Archive
  20. Conclusion
  21. Index