Uses of the document in contemporary art curated by okwui enwezor at the international center of photography in new york has never been subjected to close examination. Installation art and the practices of archivalism by david. The nigerianborn writer, editor and curator, age 50, has held the post of. Postmodernity, contemporaneity, duke university press, 2008, pdf. Archive fever derrida devotees will recognize the titlealso features work by the likes of walid raad, lorna simpson, hanspeter feldmann, and anri sala, among. Perhaps, then, bringing contemporary art into the context of the geopolitical framework that define global relationsbetween the socalled local and the global, center and margin, nationstate and the individual, transnational and diasporic communities, audiences and institutionsoffers a perspicacious view of the postcolonial constellation. Organized by renowned scholar and icp adjunct curator okwui enwezor, the exhibition presents works by leading contemporary artists who use photographic images to rethink the meaning of identity, history, memory, and loss. He studied the form and meaning and history of exhibitions as what he called thinking machines. Uses of the document in contemporary photography by okwui enwezor. Uses of the document in contemporary art by okwui enwezor for the international center for. Journal of contemporary african art, duke university press, 19942019.
Las cosas how objects from processions turn into anthropological artifacts by tobi maier. His new series titled penal colony, based on the wagon tragedy, an. Organised and written by renowned scholar and icp adjunct curator okwui enwezor, archive fever presents works by leading contemporary artists who use archival documents to rethink the meaning of. The reader expands on the subtleties and complexities at the core of the archive s production due to the values and meanings they introduce during their interaction with its documents. Press release pdf organized by renowned scholar and icp adjunct curator okwui enwezor, archive fever. Arguing that the focus in global urban studies on cities such as new york, london, tokyo in the global north, mexico city and shanghai in the developing world, and other major nodes of the world economy, has skewed the concept of the global city toward economics, this volume gathers a diverse group of contributors to focus on smaller and less economically dominant cities. Photography between history and the monument, pp 1051. Organized and written by renowned scholar and icp adjunct curator okwui enwezor, and taking its title from jacques derridas book of the same name, archive fever gathers leading contemporary artists who use archival materials in the fabrication of their work.
Uses of the document in contemporary art 2008, numerous historians, curators. Perhaps, like the library of alexandria, any archive is founded on disaster or its threat, pledged against a ruin that it cannot forestall. Starting from his research in the history of artists organizing processions and parades, the sao paulo based curator tobi maier asks. Photography between history and the monument okwui enwezor the archive is first the law of what can be said, the system that governs the appearance of statements as unique events. The introduction examines the political effects and enduring legacies of nationalist youth pemuda movements in indonesia for contemporary indonesian youth. Okwui enwezor has 74 books on goodreads with 1059 ratings. But in most archival art the actual means applied to these relational ends are far more tactile and facetoface than any web inter. Okwui enwezor 1963, calabar, nigeria2019, munich was a curator, critic and art historian. Paavo jarvensivu, researcher of economic culture and member of the mustarinda artist association, and karoliina lummaa, literary researcher, explored the archives of the finnish museum of photography to curate for the helsinki photography biennial a. Okwui enwezor was a nigerian curator, art critic, writer, poet, and educator, specializing in art history. Oct 11, 2016 hal foster 2004 an archival impulse a brief note on the archive as a theme in contemporary art and an essay that i found useful reading in thinking around uses of archives in artistic practice and how archives can provide inspiration for new work. A freudian impression 1995 is the title given to a published lecture translated from the french given by jacques derrida at a weekend conference memory the question of archive in june 1994. Sep 15, 2002 okwui enwezor, a native of nigeria, was the first noneuropean art director of documentaand the first documenta of the new millennium was the first truly global, postcolonial documenta exhibition. Okwui enwezor interview, 1997 jul 1997 exerpts from an interview by pat binder and gerhard haupt, publishers of universes in universe, with the artistic director of the 2nd johannesburg biennale, which took place on july 5th 1997 that means, still during the preparation phase of the biennale.
After an autumn of large, expert, riskfree museum retrospectives, the time is right for a brainpincher of a theme show, which is what archive fever. They were the united states representatives for the 2011 venice biennale, the 54th international art exhibition, in 2011. Many of us in new york remember snap judgments 2006 and archive fever 2008, both presented at the international center of photography. Jennifer allora born 20 march 1974 and guillermo calzadilla born 10 january 1971 are a collaborative duo of visual artists who live and work in san juan, puerto rico. Yet for derrida archive fever is more profound, bound up with repetitioncompulsion and a death drive. Curator and writer okwui enwezor in his 2008 text archive fever states that the discourse of institutional critique is changing under our feet. Okwui enwezor 19632019 okwui enwezor 19632019 born in calabar, nigeria. In so doing, jones provides a fresh account of the archives persistent appeal to something else, to something beyond the record held in hand or 2 for texts dealing with similar subject matter, see, for example, sue breakell, perspectives. Okwui enwezor was artistic director of the documenta ii exhibition in germany 19982002 and the 2nd johannesburg biennale 199697, the 7th gwangju biennale in south korea 2008. Parafictional personas and contemporary art across the news and entertainment media there is a phenomenon that is increasingly prevalent.
Okwui enwezor pioneered a new kind of global exhibition. Uses of the document in contemporary art, held at the international center for photography in new york, and earlier college art association panels dedicated entirely to the subject. Enwezor s curatorial projects alternated between ambitious international exhibitions that sought to define their moment and historically driven, encyclopedic museum shows. Nov 06, 20 this transaction is part of the social network that is produced around the archive and which the archive in turn reflects. All the worlds futures, 2015, curated by okwui enwezor. Organized by renowned scholar and icp adjunct curator okwui enwezor, archive fever. Okwui enwezor 23 october 1963 15 march 2019 was a nigerian curator, art critic, writer, poet, and educator. Okwui enwezor s final exhibition will open in sharjah in 2021. Uses of the document in contemporary art will present works by leading contemporary artists who use archival documents to rethink the meaning of identity, history, memory, and loss. It has something like the same suspenseful pace, without the focused story line. Organized and written by renowned scholar and icp adjunct curator okwui enwezor, and taking its title from jacques derridas book of the same name. Find link is a tool written by edward betts searching for okwui enwezor 33 found 126 total alternate case. Artnet news the art world was thrown into mourning on march 15, 2019 when nigerian curator, art critic, writer and poet, okwui enwezor died at the age of 55 after battling cancer for years.
In 1982, after a semester at the university of nigeria, enwezor moved to the bronx at the age of 18. Hassan and chika okekeagulu, with the support of an advisory committee including david adjaye, john akomfrah and christine tohmesharjah art foundation saf in sharjah, uae, today announced the renowned critic and curator okwui enwezor 19632019 as curator of the next. Organized by okwui enwezor, an adjunct curator at the center, its an exhibition in a style thats out of fashion in our proluxe, antiacademic time. Khan has recorded the islands abandoned architecture in photographs and video, documenting its descent into ruins. Over the past thirty years, successive generations have taken wideranging. Jul 30, 2012 africa is writing its own history so why is it that so many scholars, including okwui enwezor, cannot escape a rigid sense of time within the western canon of history, placing themselves in a limbo of postcolonial, pseudomodernity and what enwezor calls aftermodernity. Uses of the document in contemporary art, international center of photography, new york.
How do objects and costumes employed during these rituals move between the utilitarian and the symbolic. Okwui enwezor bio, wiki, age, married, net worth, twitter. On 23 october, 1963, enwezor was born as the youngest son of an affluent family of igbos in awkuzu in nigeria. International center of photography, in association with steidl publishers, 2008. Nuit et brouillard night and fog, alain resnais, 1952, 30 min guest. Documenta 11 rests on five platforms which aim to describe the present location of culture and its interfaces with other complex, global. Uses of the document in contemporary art exhibition organized by okwui enwezor for the international center for photography, new york, n. Zanele muholi art history bibliographies in harvard style. Expanding beyond the first generations of artists associated with the institutional critiques of the 1970s and 80s as well as the more recent manifestations of the archival turn or impulse, contemporary artists are forging new. African art from theory to the marketplace oguibe, olu, enwezor, okwui on. As derrida notes, the greek etymology of archive connotes both commencement and. However, his life, aspiration and creativity have greatly influenced the art world, which was why in 2015, he became. Americas at 43rd street, will present archive fever.
Some who have been in the city longer will remember the short century, presented at momaps1 back in 2002. Giorgio agamben, the archive and testimony, 1989 merewether 038040 screening. Okwui enwezor was a curator, critic and art historian. Mar 15, 2019 okwui enwezor was a nigerian curator, art critic, writer, poet, and educator, specializing in art history. He has curated numerous exhibitions in some of the most distinguished museums around the world, including archive fever. Uses of the document in contemporary art at the international center for photography in new york, an exhibition that included the same work by jef geys that had been on view in enwezors documenta11 six years earlier one of only a handful of occasions.
He is standing there as though listening to something. The expenditure of natural and art historian okwui enwezor espouses in his text. Over the past thirty years, successive generations have taken wideranging approaches to the photographic and filmic archive. The materials in their archival fonds consist of photographs, films, videos, notebooks, sculptures, and texts. Zanele muholi art history bibliographies cite this for me. The 15th sharjah biennial in the united arab emirates will stage the last show by the renowned nigerian curator okwui enwezor, who passed away this year. Okwui enwezor, a native of nigeria, was the first noneuropean art director of documentaand the first documenta of the new millennium was the first truly global, postcolonial documenta exhibition. A brief note on the archive as a theme in contemporary art and an essay that i found useful reading in thinking around uses of archives in artistic practice and how archives can provide inspiration for new work. Enwezor is dean of academic affairs at the san francisco art institute, and has been visiting professor in art history at the university of pittsburgh. But curator okwui enwezor proclaims in the shows catalogue that. Her visual archive, which also includes drawings, prints, and paintings based on the photographs, presents manoras ruins as metonymic of karachis colonial and postcolonial histories. Okwui enwezor 23 october 1963 15 march 2019 was a nigerian. Sharjah art foundation announces the late okwui enwezor as. Okwui enwezor 1963, calabar, nigeria 2019, munich was a curator, critic and art historian.
Life and time of nigerian curator, okwui enwezor p. The archive is first the law of what can be said, the system that governs the. He was renowned for his research on modernity and global modernisms, theories of contemporary art and photography, diaspora and migration, decolonisation and postcolonial modernisms, and the history and development of museums, exhibitions and curatorial practice. Okwui enwezor coined the term aftermodern to define the state. Okwui enwezor will curate the 2015 venice biennale. Despite its success, the 2008 exhibition archive fever. In the spring of 2008, okwui enwezor organised archive fever. As derrida notes, the greek etymology of archive connotes both commencement. Okwui enwezor s most popular book is lorna simpson. The conference emerged from the freud museums fundraising campaign and was held at somerset house, london.
Uses of the document in contemporary art 2008, icp new york and postwar. An archival impulse hal foster consider a temporary display cobbled together out of workday materials like cardboard, aluminum foil, and packing tape, and filled, like a homemade study shrine, with a chaotic array of images, texts, and testimonials devoted to a radical artist, writer, or philosopher. Sharjah art foundation announces late okwui enwezor as. Mapping the atlas group archive adrienne connelly a thesis in. Sharjah art foundation announces late okwui enwezor as curator. But the archive is also that which determines that all these things said do not accu. Pdf fabrizio gitto, archive fever di okwui enwezor 2008. Okwui enwezor okwui enwezor 1963, calabar, nigeria2019, munich was a curator, critic and art historian. Fresh perspectives on the permanent collection from dartmouth. Ideology and fantasy in contemporary south african representation, third text 40. Okwui enwezor 23 october 1963 15 march 2019 was a nigerian curator, art critic, writer, poet, and educator, specializing in art history. Synopsis organized and written by renowned scholar and icp adjunct curator okwui enwezor, archive fever presents works by leading contemporary artists who use archival documents to rethink the meaning of identity, history, memory, and loss. Organised and written by renowned scholar and icp adjunct curator okwui enwezor, and taking its title from jacques derridas book of the same name, archive.