“At a time when we both crave and feel overwhelmed by information, the archive can seem like a more authoritative, or somehow more authentic, body of information or of objects bearing value and meaning.“ To deprive ourselves of these paper symbols and testimonies is to deprive ourselves somewhat of our memories.” this is the memory associated with all the events connected to each of these papers. “Archives are seen as rows and rows of boxes on shelves, impenetrable without the codex which unlocks their arrangement and locations.”įrom The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away (1996) by Ilya Kabakov: “. ARTICLE>Perspectives: Negotiating the Archive by Sue Breakell, Tate Papers no.
