L’Archive des Ombres = Shadow Archive
texts by Patricia Falguières, Denis Gielen, Sophie Berrebi, Ellen Mara de Wachter, Fiona Tan ; design by Casier / Fieuws
- Author(s)
- Patricia Falguières, Denis Gielen, Sophie Berrebi, Ellen Mara de Wachter, Fiona Tan
- Publication
- Mons : MAC's Grand Hornu, 2019
- Scope
- 2 volumes in a slip case, 320 Pages, illustrated, 32 cm.
- ISBN
- 9782930368740
Fiona Tan is well known for her photography, film and video installations in which she frequently addresses ideas of identity, memory, and history. This publication documents on one hand recent works including a new large scale project commissioned by the Grand-Hornu Museum of Contemporary Arts in Mons, Belgium and presented here for the first time. This work, titled Shadow Archive, is inspired by Paul Otlet (1868-1944), considered to be one of the forefathers of information science. Shadow Archive deals in particular with Otlet’s decades-long utopian quest to establish a central repository for the world’s information; between 1919 and 1934, Otlet and his team assembled more than 16 million index cards of data. The books in this slip case incorporate previously unpublished original drawings and notes drafted by Otlet selected by Fiona Tan for her installation, an amazing archive which reveals his visionary and creative personality as well as his exploration of the limits of the human knowledge.
- Person as subject
- Paul Otlet, Fiona Tan
- Keywords
- information design , archives
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 1: Informatievormgeving
- Extra themes
- Archives
- Remarks
- Incl. notes, Biographies
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