Dr Marc Kosciejew of the Department of Library, Information, and Archive Sciences was recently published in the globally prestigious journal, Tate Papers, which is the main publication of the premier Tate institution in the United Kingdom. Tate Papers is a peer-reviewed research journal that publishes articles on British and modern international art and on museum practice.
Leading specialists and researchers from around the world contribute to the journal, which showcases a range of disciplinary approaches to the study of art and museums. Its articles are deemed by UK research councils to be suitable for submission to the Research Excellence Framework. It is one of the most established and well-read online scholarly journals of its kind in the world, accessed by more than 230,000 people world-wide each year.
Dr Kosciejew’s article, entitled 'Documentation and the Information of Art', applies documentation theories to artistic research and practice. The article specifically outlines a documentary approach to the study of artistic practice, focusing on the ways in which information is materialised. It explores how processes of making, framing and interpreting art can be seen through a documentary lens, which offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the way information is created, conveyed and consumed. It demonstrates how an engagement with documentation theories can provide novel insights into art making, art research, and the information of art.
The article is inspired by Dr Kosciejew’s spring 2016 lecture at the Tate Modern in London, UK, where he served as one of the trainers for the Tate’s New Materialism School, Research Genealogies and Material Practices (part of the COST Action IS1307: New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on 'How Matter Comes to Matter). He created and delivered the lecture 'Approaching Documentation: Materiality, Institutionality, Discipline, Historicity, and the Antelope' that presented some of the significant (inter)connections between documentation, information, art, and culture.
Dr Kosciejew thanks the editors and reviewers of Tate Papers, the experts and staff of Tate, and the New Materialism COST Action for their advice, encouragement, and support.
