2 pages paper

Requirement

Read and summarize the attached article published by TATE Museum, Perspectives: Negotiating the Archive. 

View the ArtForum video in which Jill Magid explains her project, The Proposal, to rescue the Mexican architect Luis Barragan’s Archive.  Give your informed response to Magid’s project.

Artforum, Jill Magid, 2016, (12 min)

https://www.artforum.com/video/jill-magid-on-the-proposal-63141

Artists, journalists and activists are increasingly viewing the archive as a source of artistic practice and display.  Curators and scholars have written extensively on the myriad ways that the form, function and concept of the archive have been appropriated by contemporary artists. 

What connections exist between art of the past and the work that artists are creating today?

Whose responsibility is it to portray history?