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The Journey: the Archive, Narrative, Truth and Identity
This presentation will consider the use of archival material in contemporary art as a strategy for re-narrating history and re-presenting identity. Since the emergence of conceptual art in the 1960s, the archive has been significant in the visual investigation of history, memory and identity. Artists such as Boltanski, Kabakov, Richter, Ingelevics, Milojevic and Gough, amongst many others, have used the archive to challenge our understanding of history and offer alternative narratives for engaging with the past. In itself, the archive is not history, but the point from which history, and its retelling, emerges. The discussion will focus in particular on challenges associated with a project called The journey home, based on the author's attempt to follow her mother s journey from Soviet and German occupied Latvia to Australia at the end of WWII. Using both personal and private archival material, including old and new photographs, artefacts, video and text, The journey home is underpinned by a desire to connect with a previously untold history and to understand the impact of cultural displacement on identity.
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Publication title
ACUADS 2010 Annual ConferenceEditors
University of TasmaniaDepartment/School
School of Creative Arts and MediaPublisher
University of TasmaniaEvent title
ACUADS 2010 Annual ConferenceEvent Venue
Launceston, TasmaniaDate of Event (Start Date)
2010-09-01Date of Event (End Date)
2010-09-03Repository Status
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