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SUSPENDING THE ARCHIVE AN INTERVIEW WITH STEFAN NOWOTNY BY JELENA FUZINATO, GIOVANNA ESPOSITO YUSSIF AND KSENIA KAVERINA
Working with archives is a central issue in curating— the rules and limitations around what is called an archive influence most of our practices. Contemporary theory and philosophy questions the archive to render it inoperative, rather than making it operate in new ways. Stefan Nowotny is a researcher, philosopher and lecturer at Goldsmiths in the University of London who also engages in translation projects and collaborations with visual and performance artists. He visited Aalto University in autumn 2014 with a workshop and lecture as part of CuMMA’s Discourse Series. In his conversation, Nowotny pondered the problematic notion of cultural translation, the difference between language and culture, and the dimensions of an archive.