Reparative Redaction
<p>In this wide-ranging new essay, media scholar Shannon Mattern describes numerous artistic approaches to redaction, treating it as a capacious practice with diverse applications across media, contexts and scales. Unlike ellision or erasure, redaction embeds a latent capacity for redemption: across words, images, sounds and structures, the act of disappearing or censoring always shows its own operation, thus opening new paths towards repair and healing. Mattern surveys multiple areas of practice, considering how artists, musicians, architects, archivists, librarians and technologists might all learn from one another about redaction as a field of possibility.</p>
Authors: Shannon Mattern
References: Martina Bacigalupo, M. NourbeSe Philip, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, Stephanie Syjuco, Kat Mustatea, Elizabeth Alexander, Ryan Maguire, Ellen Gallagher, Jeremy Mickel, Glenn Ligon, Winnie Soon, Julie Bargmann, Forest Young, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Titus Kaphar, Carlos Soto-Román, Steve McQueen, John Baldessari
Editors: William Wiebe, Benjamin Tiven
Designer: Bryce Wilner