ARCHIVO PAPERS – Journal of Photography and Visual Culture, Volume 5, June 2025.

ARCHIVES AND CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ART
Normalised Practices and Non-normative Historiographies

GUEST EDITOR: Annalisa Laganà, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Italy

INTRODUCTION

"Archives and Contemporary Art: A Matter of Individuality"
Annalisa Laganà

ESSAYS

"An Archival Impulse: Twenty Years Later"
Rita Cêpa

"Performing the Photothek: Rhetorics of Value in Photographic Archives"
Costanza Caraffa

"Contemporary Art Practices and Art Historiography Facing the Question of Archivability"
Francesca Zanella

"The Archive and the Atelier, Almost a Hendiadys"
Massimo Maiorino

"Restoring History, Recreating the Past: The Use of Archives in Performance-lectures by Contemporary Artists"
Gabriela Sá

"Mediating the Past Making (in) the Present: Contemporary Artistic Practices from Türkiye and the Construction of Memory Around 6-7 September 1955"
Defne Oruç

"The Role of Archives in Preserving Artistic Memory: Visual Artists from Turkey in the Netherlands"
S. Nesli Gül Durukan

"'Dialectical Contemporaneity' at the University of Porto: Art Projects Reflecting on Historical Cartography through Personal Narratives"
David Lopes

"From Fluid Art to Fluid Archive: A Dive into an Online Documentation Project of Ephemeral Heritage from the 1960s onwards"
Annemarie Kok

"Rewilding the Digital Archive: An Artistic Exploration of the Bug as a Decolonial Agent"
Martina Denegri

"'Adwa' and the Oral Turn: Reimagining Museum and Archival Practices" Beyond Visual Hegemony
Livia Dubon

VISUAL ESSAY

"How to Look at a Camera"
Linda Fregni Nagler

PORTFOLIO

"Dayanita Singh’s Museum Bhavam: A book, an exhibition, a photographic archive"
Annalisa Laganà, Dayanita Singh