by Trish Scott
Words and sites are stretchy and dissonant. What does it mean to be somewhere? What does it mean to say you are somewhere? I’m in the archive. ‘I’m in the archive’.
Am I in the archive? What even is an archive? Is it a place? Is it a document? Is it words? Is it feeling? Is it an idea? And how is it mediated?
The archive is often cited as the archetypal site. The foundation of knowledge. Unchanging through time. A strong reliable backbone we can all trust, dismissive of orality, uncertainty, vulnerability and feeling.
Untitled (Site) questions this. It sets out to trouble the archive, stretching it as a site in physical, temporal and discursive terms.
Trish Scott is an artist, educator, curator and researcher based at King’s College London. Her research is focused on challenging and dismantling traditional hierarchies and systems of value in cultural knowledge production, in order to create new forms of relationality and authorship.
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