ARCHIVE is the collaborative production entity of artists Anne Walsh and Chris Kubick.
Their series, Art After Death takes the form of an audio cd series, performance lectures, and museum and gallery installations which present narrated and edited audio, recorded during “interviews” (séances) with dead artists, as offering an alternative form of “art history.” They suggest that (art) criticism might be a collaborative and performative practice, rather than an authoritative one. The act of using metaphysical communication prostheses-spirit mediums-to obtain information about artists’ intentions is one that brings the interpreter’s role powerfully into the foreground.
For An Evening with Joseph Cornell, ARCHIVE will present a lecture of their work.