Too good to be entirely true (A coda on the pleasure of archives and avant-garde publishing)

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Seita, Sophie. 2024. Too good to be entirely true (A coda on the pleasure of archives and avant-garde publishing). Textual Practice, 38(6), pp. 1012-1017. ISSN 0950-236X [Article]

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How do we engage creatively with archives, in addition to or alongside reading for ‘historical evidence’ or beyond the usual discovery-recovery paradigm, giving ourselves fictional or speculative permissions? This coda thinks about embodied research, performance as publishing, feminist and queer avant-garde legacies, taking up the work of small-press editors and contributors, and bringing that work into mediated circulation again, in a form of homage and even performative séance. How can artworks archive intimacy and desire? Para-fictional, para-academic, and speculative forms of research and creative practice can act as playful and rigorous enquiries into how we read or ‘use’ the past. Reading becomes a form of listening and engaging with other voices on the page. It is about making (new) work happen rather than historicise it.

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Article

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https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2024.2362057

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The Women Artists Slide Library; the Kenning anthology of poets theatre: 1945–1985; archives; feminist and queer avant-garde publishing; reading; practice-based research; para-academic practices‌

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Art

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