The document discusses fragmentation, appropriation, and representation in contemporary art. It provides examples of artists like Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Cornell, and Bruce Conner who incorporate fragmented elements in their work. It also discusses appropriation of existing images by artists like Marcel Duchamp and Ken Jacobs. Finally, it examines how artists like William Wees and Matthew Buckingham represent found images and footage to promote critical analysis, and how artists like Miranda Pennell take on the role of researcher.

1. 16.01.2014
Plundering the Archive : Fragmentation, Appropriation and Representation in
the Contemporary World

2. 1) FRAGMENTATION
“the experience of the world in fragments, in which the passing of time means
not progress but disintegration.” Walter Benjamin

3. Kurt Schwitters
Blauer Vogel
1922

4. Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell, 1936)

5. Joseph Cornell
A Parrot for Juan Gris
1953-54

6. Bruce Conner,
opening sequence of
A MOVIE
(details from
filmstrip), 1958

7. 2) APPROPRIATION
“One need not look for new, as yet unseen images, but one must work with
existing ones in such a way that they become new.” Harun Farocki

8. Marcel Duchamp
Fontaine (1917)

9. Perfect Film (Ken Jacobs, 1985)

10. 3) REPRESENTATION
William Wees :
archival and found footage films “present images as images, as representations
of the image-producing apparatus of cinema and television, but collage also
promotes an analytical and critical attitude toward its images and their
institutional sources”

11. SITUATION LEADING TO A STORY (Matthew Buckingham, 1999)

12. 4) THE ARTIST AS RESEARCHER
WHY COLONEL BUNNY WAS KILLED (Miranda Pennell, 2010)