Report from the Gutenberg Galaxy (Blaker), 3: Archive Has Left the Building (2017)

A publication released in connection with the exhibition Archive Has Left the Building, the third iteration of The Gutenberg Galaxy at Blaker (2013-15), which takes as its point of departure the archive of the artist Guttorm Guttormsgaard, a collection of tens of thousands of objects he has collected with the intention of “documenting necessary impulses to keep one’s spirits up.” The archive is located in a former dairy in Blaker, a village 40 km northeast of Oslo. Guttormsgaard has referred to the printed book as a model for his own artistic practice. The project aims to reimagine the book today.

Contributions by Matthew Fuller, Scandinavian Institute for Computational Vandalism (SICV), Ellef Prestsæter, Karin Nygård, Institutt for Degenerert Kunst.

Edited by Karin Nygård and Ellef Prestsæter
Publisher Rett Kopi, Blaker, 2017
Open access
70 pages

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See also previous two volumes.

Kate Eichhorn: The Archival Turn in Feminism: Outrage in Order (2013)

“In the 1990s, a generation of women born during the rise of the second wave feminist movement plotted a revolution. These young activists funneled their outrage and energy into creating music, and zines using salvaged audio equipment and stolen time on copy machines. By 2000, the cultural artifacts of this movement had started to migrate from basements and storage units to community and university archives, establishing new sites of storytelling and political activism.

The Archival Turn in Feminism chronicles these important cultural artifacts and their collection, cataloging, preservation, and distribution. Cultural studies scholar Kate Eichhorn examines institutions such as the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture at Duke University, The Riot Grrrl Collection at New York University, and the Barnard Zine Library. She also profiles the archivists who have assembled these significant feminist collections.

Eichhorn shows why young feminist activists, cultural producers, and scholars embraced the archive, and how they used it to stage political alliances across eras and generations.”

Publisher Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2013
ISBN 9781439909515, 1439909512
xii+188 pages
via author

Interview with author (Critical Margins, 2014)

Reviews: Susan M. Kline (J Archival Organization, 2013), Rebecka Sheffield (Archivaria, 2014), Natalya Lusty (Archives & Manuscripts, 2014), Elizabeth Groeneveld (Contemporary Women’s Writing, 2015), Julie R. Enszer (Signs, 2015), Joyce M. Latham (J American Culture, 2015).

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WorldCat

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Wolfgang Ernst: Stirrings in the Archives: Order from Disorder (2002/2015)

“Like most of Wolfgang Ernst’s work, Das Rumoren der Archiv explored the concept of archival and media theory from a current cultural digital context. Ernst challenges the traditional perspective of the cultural heritage institution and how it relied on media for creating, storing and disseminating digital information. Archives have a place in a digital society, and the archivist’s role will be more increasingly vital in the future. As Ernst points out, his work will show a way out of the archive, away from the notion that the era of archive is coming to an end.

Here is the long-awaited English translation of this seminal work exploring cultural heritage before the archives, throughout history, and from today into the future.

Ernst’s work emphasized a need to recognize media as a method for capturing and preserving our collective cultural identity. It is vital that archivists promoted a greater awareness of how media technology augmented the creation, management, and dissemination of digital content.”

First published as Das Rumoren der Archive. Ordnung aus Unordnung, Merve, Berlin, 2002.

Translated by Adam Siegel
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, 2015
ISBN 9781442253957, 1442253959
v+101 pages

Reviews: Eric Willey (Archival Issues, 2015), Simran Thadani (RBM, 2016), Alexandrina Buchanan (Archives and Records, 2016).

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WorldCat

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