Archive Public
Performing Archives in Public Art Topical Interpositions

Within the flexible limits of archival art today, Archive Public examines archival art as intervention in public space, questioning the dominant hegemony and allowing for possibilities of solidarity actions. The book includes theoretical hypotheses on archival practice in contemporary art, art works that were specifically created for the project, as well as an anthology of essays by contemporary thinkers who elaborate on particular issues of the archive. Interventions focus on the urban and social condition of Patras, as it is influenced by a translocal dynamics which produce interrelations with other localities.

Panos Kouros and Elpida Karaba live and work in Athens, Greece.

Texts: Arjun Appadurai, Ioannis Chorianopoulos, Wolfgang Ernst, Boris Groys, Panos Kouros, Elpida Karaba, Oliver Marchart, Gerald Raunig, Saskia Sassen
Artist’s Works: Yota Ioannidou, Maria Konti, Gregoris Pharmakis, Lina Theodorou, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Vangelis Vlahos, Nayia Yiakoumaki
Design: Studio Christos Lialios

Size: 165×240 mm
Pages: 280
Illustrations: 22 images
Format: Softcover
Languages: English, Greek
Edition: 700 copies

2012

ISBN: 978-960-99662-7-6