Tuesday 2 April 2019

Susan Hiller on her work From the Freud Museum

In this her text 'Working Through Objects' from 1994 Susan Hiller reflects on working with archival objects From the Freud Museum.

Reflections on the archive by Sue Breakell


"Archives are more prominent than ever, not only in art practice and theoretical discourse but also in popular culture. An archive is now understood to mean anything that is longer current but that has been retained. This paper considers how archival practice can be integrated further within current discourses of art history, theory and practice, at a time when the concept of the archive is at both more widely known and less fixed in its meaning." Continue reading Sue Breakell's reflections on  negotiating the archive in this piece published on the Tate website.