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Exhibiting the Archive: Space, Encounter, and Experience

Exhibiting the Archive: Space, Encounter, and Experience

Lester, Peter

Paperback

Series: Routledge Studies in Archives

General ReferenceGeneral Art

ISBN10: 0367747251
ISBN13: 9780367747251
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 27 2024
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Exhibiting the Archive examines the role that exhibition plays in archives and analyses the impact they are understood to have on how users and visitors experience the archive.

Drawing on research conducted in Europe, North America and Australia, the book analyses the key theoretical and social influences on exhibition-making in archives today and discusses the role of exhibitions in the archives of tomorrow. This is the first in-depth study to consider exhibition as more than outreach or advocacy: it frames exhibition as an encounter with archives and with people, and interprets it as a mechanism for change within the archive. Against a backdrop of increasing digital activity, Lester asks what experience within the physical space of the archive could be. Drawing on ideas of spatiality and embodiment, as well as social justice and activism, Lester considers the role of exhibitions within the physical archive and the part they can play in reshaping how experience is understood to happen within it.

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