| art.description.project | The artpiece, For Objects to Come include an installation, animation(software) and a text. Below are quotes from the text and other texts about the project.
The text is part of a booklet series that will be released 2017/18, http://www.para-archives.net/
with artist, writers and researchers writing about para-archives.
For Objects to Come
“The storage space in the attic carries traces and marks of previous tenants – a cross hanging from a beam in the ceiling, paint stains on the floor and a pair of old skis, at some point left behind – the door adorned with numbers and a padlock, protecting against intrusion and baring witness of an owner.”
“There is no more space and a cleaning is necessary to make room for new things. Most of it has been packed in brown boxes and bags, of which I no longer remember the contents. Squeezed in between the boxes and the bags are items still waiting to be organised. Ending up here are the things that were rejected or that belong to another time, hidden away but none the less a part of my story and my life, a collection – a spare saucepan, a tennis racket for future matches, chairs awaiting guests. A remarkable number of the objects have never been used, and will eventually be replaced or thrown away.”
“I write a new computer program inspired by the attic storage cleaning, a memory program consisting of two even squares connected to a camera. Square one represents real-time, what the camera sees. Square two is the past, captured in photographs. Each time you photograph a new object an old one disappears. Square two shows the most recent photos in a sequence, creating an animation.”
[Post]-[Digital]-[Archives]
Inter Arts Center,
Malmö, Bergsgatan 29,
September 13-19, opening at 6PM, Wednesday, September 13.
Let’s say the digital revolution is over. The enthusiasm that ushered in this revolution has since become counter-balanced, if not submerged, by skepticism and disenchantment. And what we are faced with are ubiquitous surveillance, impoverishment of aesthetic experiences and trivialization of social life, the results of an – at once deep and shallow – immersion in the digital and network media. The way we access, record and archive our presence in the world has also been affected. In this post-digital situation, we all engage in some forms of archiving, whether we want to – or not. When interacting with our devices, we archive and are being archived, held captive by a densely woven net of technologies. How can this condition be approached creatively?
The event takes the form of a temporary zone for the exploration of hybrid modes of personal archiving. In a loose and impromptu manner, the event presents on-going work of several practitioners who, in a poetic, humble, renegade, creative and subversive way combine digital and non-digital techniques to record, erase, archive, unarchive, remediate or demediate selected facets of everyday life in the present moment. Practitioners whose on-going work will be presented in the White Room at IAC include: Tim Shaw, Malin Pettersson Öberg, Nikita Mazurov, Jenny Soep, Ronda Bautista, Lucy N., Olle Essvik, and Jacek Smolicki. | sv |
