Category: archiving

  • Artists as ‘memoryscapers’: Using the archives as construction sites [Excerpt]

    In Jimerson’s imagery of the archives as a restaurant, the customer is a researcher served by a staff acting in front and behind the kitchen that is the archives. He elaborated the metaphor by imagining that “[t]he researcher remains in the dining room, as a consumer of information, while the most important work of the…

  • Finding Tasing [Excerpt]

    Finding Tasing [Excerpt]

    I found Tasing when I went over the first three volumes of Purita Kalaw-Ledesma’s digitized scrapbooks, dense with news clippings and other ephemera about art. I had to physically visit the Kalaw-Ledesma Foundation Inc. (KLFI) in Makati to use their newly-fixed computer for researchers because at least here in the Philippines, the only way access…