must be produced negatively by eliminating information insofar as increased information means memory and diminished information means forgetting.... tekhne logos might have promised, but rather reconfigures the relationships that it can weave with its exterior. oddly enough, this leads us back to the question of paranoia, etymologically "beside the mind", the self cast outside itself like a mind beside the mind out of sync, unhinged.... input-output... to take the instrument to the point of madness... delirium as the source of a system he called 'critical paranoia'... it was a psychological condition corresponding to the recording, safekeeping and salvaging of information... but in its recovery... accessed... in his 1969 Archeology of Knowledge, Foucault famously conceived the archive as the "system that governs the appearance of statements as unique events"... knowledge is not structured in advance; it is perfomative and therefore essentially emergent.
1968 essay "Expanded Education"... "the archeology of the present"... thus the art of live memory is an archive that works by subtracting information, like a negative dialectic working against the instrumental rationality of control-freak paranoia.... Antoni Muntadas's 1994 The File Room... Anne-Marie Duguet, founder of the Anarchive series.... a digital conceptual geography... One for Violin Solo, Opera Sextronique, Fluxus Sonata... It is up to performance to activate the archive by means of its concept, its operating principle. What is recovered is the performance of the archive. If archeology can be understood, as Foucault said, as a description "of discourses as specific practices in the archival element," here it is to produce the event of the archive in the element of the artwork.
www.thefileroom.org
www.anarchive.net
www.ichim.org/ichim03/PDF/054C.pdf
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