Archive impurities: artistic practice and (re) elaboration of an archive

Abstract

This paper deals with the re-elaboration of the concept of archive based on artistic praxis. It presents and problematizes the path that led the author to a naive – or still idealized – perception of archival practice to the conception of archives as a center of forces that are often dissonant. It is based, for this, on the artistic experience it deals with (and in its report) and, on the other hand, on a series of questions raised by authors who, at the same time, have dedicated themselves to thinking about archives in the context of discursive practices that run through it.