As an interview series, “An Archival Impulse, or Not” delves into the practices of young artists who engage with historical and personal archives of sorts through in-person or email interviews. Departing from the critic Hal Foster's famous 2004 essay “An Archival Impulse,” the interview series hopes to re-interpret the valence of the notion of the archive in recently made contemporary art. As Foster has said, “the general impulse is hardly new,” but what keeps the eyes of today's artists on the archive besides the research-oriented graduate education? And what does their involvement with the archive, a scholarly item concentrated with power, mean to them?

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The interview series is kindly hosted by gallery no one beginning on July 1, 2019 (ongoing). It is also supported in part by Strange Fire. 

 

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1. Interview with Gloria Jue-Youn Han – "Using the Unseen to See"

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2. Interview with Tamer Hassan and Armand Yervant Tufenkian – "Accessioning"

3. Interview with Hương Ngô – "Adding a Multiplicity of Identities at a Time"

4. Interview with Michal Martychowiec – "Reading | History"

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5. Interview with Astro (María Escudero) – "How to Look at a Monolith"