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==Description==

In the past decades, the use and reappropriation of archival strategies and archival material has been a strong component of contemporary art practices. The artist has been adopting several roles, such as the historian, the archivist, the story-teller, in order to re-examine this material and its medial representation and translate it into new forms. Starting-point of the course will be the examination of archival strategies (including the visits to archives on site, the examination of the archive versus the collection), to further on appropriate and deconstruct the methods and/or the material and reflect on a more general level on the organisation of things and their possible reafirmation or self-organisation.