1. This exhibitions was composed of a list of titles printed on the walls, so why it should be called "a live archive"? Does it mean a "current archive" i.e. "applicable to the contemporary art world"?
2. Does "that could easily have been determined by Jacques Ranciere’s identification of" mean "that could easily be described through Jacques Ranciere’s four major types of..."?
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Context:
In the London-based Institute of Contemporary Arts’ 2006 Becks Futures exhibition, which presents the work of selected, emerging UK-based practitioners, the contextual German artist Stefan Bruggemann’s installation Show Titles (2000) amounted to a‘live archive’ of over 700 hypothetical exhibition titles listed in neat columns on four walls of a temporary room. Obviously tongue-in-cheek, the titles nevertheless presented a serious portrait of twenty-first-century art world ‘pet themes and concepts’ that could easily have been determined by Jacques Ranciere’s identification of ‘four major types of contemporary exhibition: the game, the inventory, the encounter and the mystery’.
Top answer
2. The "four types" could easily have been the principle by which the titles were conceived or arranged. )
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The "four types" could easily have been the principle by which the titles were conceived or arranged.
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