“Arhiivid ja allumatus” (“Archives and Subjugation: The Changing Tactics of Visual Culture in Eastern Europe”)

“Arhiivid ja allumatus: visuaalkultuuri muutuvad taktikad Ida-Euroopas” is an international anthology that explores the role of archives in the visual culture of post-socialist Eastern European societies and their associated public discourse. The volume plays a significant role in raising awareness of Eastern European discourse and collective experience.

The collection maps selected theoretical and creative positions and critiques, focusing on archives as primarily art institutions, museums, photo and video banks. Archives are discussed as tools of governance and identity politics that control value systems, human behavior, language use, and subjectivity. This approach to archives is based on the assumption that archives not only preserve and collect documents and images but also shape and create discourse about both the object and the subject’s positions in society. The concepts of archives and subjugation offer an approach through which the ways of interpreting and cementing the past can be explored.

Contributions help the reader understand how knowledge is produced and reproduced, how it is altered, and the role of visual culture in this process. The anthology brings together critical positions that open up relationships between the curator, artist, and archivist; archives’ connections to time and its consumption, as well as the silenced and excluded gendered and other social identities; the roles of categorization and criminalization; and concepts such as aestheticization and politicization, the familiar and the foreign, spectrality, surveillance, and counter-archives.

The anthology is available in both Estonian and English, with a total of 12 articles divided into three parts: 1) The Aporias of the Post-Socialist Archive; 2) The Nature of Control and Its Mechanisms; 3) Counter-Archives and Subjugation. It also includes photographic material related to the discussed art projects.

Publisher: Estonian Academy of Arts
Editors: Margaret Tali, Tanel Rander
Authors: Tina Bastajian, Marina Gržinić, Oliver Laas, Andrej Kurnik, Vesna Madžoski, Achille Mbembe, Eléonore de Montesquiou, Anu Pennanen, Marko Raat, Tanel Rander, Margaret Tali, Anna-Stina Treumund
Consultant: Maarin Ektermann
Designer: Agnes Ratas (Stuudio Stuudio)
Editor: Neeme Lopp
Format: Softcover
Language: Estonian, English
Dimensions: 11.5 x 18 cm
Year of Publication: 2016
ISBN: 978-9949-467-87-7

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