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How Do You Archive the Sky? - Archive Journal

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“The archive has become the battleground of a cultural war between those who see culture as based on identity and those who see it based on difference.” – Morten Søndergaard2 “This always-departing body presents too its own history and timeframe, its delimiters and politics, but also a somatic reflection of this information, to allow work to remain present, in a moving changing shifting vehicle.” – Julie Tolentino3 Archives, like bodies, are not static. As time passes, their material nature is at risk of deterioration, loss, or destruction. Archives themselves are marked by removals and gaps. Their meanings will change over time, depending on the contexts in which researchers interpret, select, and edit them. If they are mutable, why do arguments surrounding archives so often rest on the assumption that archives are, by definition, resistant to change?4 Perhaps this is because the formal definition of an archive is “a place in which public records or historical documents are preserved.

How Do You Archive the Sky? - Archive Journal Pardon our appearance as we resolve some issues! Case Study How Do You Archive the Sky? By Tara Hart November 2015 ¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 “Archive … the term has become so productively elastic.” – Debra Levine 1 ¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 “The archive has become the battleground of a cultural war between those who see culture as based on identity and those who see it based on difference.” – Morten Søndergaard 2 ¶ 5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 0 “This always-departing body presents too its own history and timeframe, its de

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