october 120 spring 2007: pp. 140-172
"there are the projects that deploy photographs films discovered after directed searches in archives. some artists explore such material in detail to indicate the histories recorded in the images, while at the same time acknowledging the fallibility of the archive and the insrutability of the discovered images" p.143
"the artist is the historian who can open up new ways of thinking about the future. the future is one where the histories of the dispossessed are acknowledged ... the future is where nationalistic monuments fade into air and crumble away ... previously unrecognised stories are told, new voices created ... work is oriented to the future, and avoiding both nostalgia and despair, it remains ever hopeful." pp. 171-172
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