Artists in the archive: engaging with the remains of art and performance

Artists in the Archive: Engaging With the Remains of Art and Performanceis a stunning collection of critical writings and original artworks which explore the agency of the archival document.

The volume opens up a unique dialogue between artists and scholars, to look at a range of relationships between insider know-how and outsider knowledge, troubling the distinction between artistic practice and scholarly research.

In its global range of contributions Artists in the Archivepresents disciplinary perspectives from experimental theatre, to performance art, choreography and dance, to visual art making, archiving and curating. An exciting array of contributors look at the philosophy and politics of re-using remains, giving a fully historicised account of the institutional and infrastructural contexts of this artistic practice.