The art at issue here [so-called ‘archival’ art] does not project a lack of logic or affect. On the contrary, it assumes anomic fragmentation orders of affective association, however partial or provisional, to this end, even as it also registers the difficulty, at times the absurdity, of doing so.
— Hal Foster “An Archival Impulse” October Autumn 2004 (Relational Aesthetics issue)
