Nov
16
Archive as Evidence
Thanks to Jane Booth for paying such close attention to my work in this new article about the U.S.–Mexico Border Porject. I was delighted to meet her a year or two ago when she was working with the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.
The Archive as Evidence
https://medium.com/tesserae/the-archive-as-evidence-24898054775a
––Elizabeth Diamond, “The Archivist as Forensic Scientist,” (1).
The archival art of Susan Harbage Page (b. 1959) takes on the perspective of expert witness in order to testify to the trauma at the United States-Mexico border. Harbage Page’s larger work examines the border as a site of collective trauma through the presentation of photographs and objects found during the artist’s trips to the Rio Grande Valley in southeast Texas.
The Archive as Evidence
https://medium.com/tesserae/the-archive-as-evidence-24898054775a
––Elizabeth Diamond, “The Archivist as Forensic Scientist,” (1).
The archival art of Susan Harbage Page (b. 1959) takes on the perspective of expert witness in order to testify to the trauma at the United States-Mexico border. Harbage Page’s larger work examines the border as a site of collective trauma through the presentation of photographs and objects found during the artist’s trips to the Rio Grande Valley in southeast Texas.
