Re-elaborating Archive Typologies from Artistic Creation: The Conceptual Itineraries of ARES. Aesthetics, Identities, and Audio-Visual Practices in Spain
Abstract
This paper discusses the possibilities of the archive as a research tool at the University through a case study, the ARES Archive. Aesthetics, Identities, and Audio-Visual Practices in Spain, framed within the Research Group Visu@ls. Visual Culture and Identity Politics, from the UCLM. We will begin by contextualizing the limits of the archival turn in the field of audio-visual art, and secondly, from the four concepts that make up ARES –sex, gender, nationality, and ethnicity– a series of conceptual itineraries and analysis subsections will be proposed. By encompassing all the artworks collected in the Archive, we hope both to facilitate a more articulated and precise vision of them and to delve critically into the identity issues derived from these terms, since identity is the central topic in this platform. Finally, if video art can be understood as a catalyst for critical counter-imaginaries against the flow of spectacle-images that surround us, its availability through the online and public archive can be postulated as a very useful strategy for its dissemination.
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