COLLECT THE WWWORLD: Archive

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Specialists or amateurs?

The real question is: to whom does the meaning of the art of the past properly belong? To those who can apply it to their own lives, or to a cultural hierarchy of relic specialists? John Berger, Ways of Seeing, 1972

Jun 19th

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Boards

Adults and children sometimes have boards in their bedrooms or livingrooms on which they pin pieces of paper: letters, snapshots, reproductions of paintings, newspaper cuttings, original drawings, postcards. On each board all the images belong to the same language and are all more or less equal within it, because they have been chosen in a highly personal way to match and express the...

Jun 19th

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I seek to possess and appropriate for myself life and its events: I constantly inspect, collect, order, sort and reduce everything to numerous album collections. Annette Messanger

Jun 19th

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Jun 19th

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“You are what you keep Ingrid Schaffner”

Jun 19th

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Memory, history and spectacle

For some the notion of storage conjures memory (things saved become souvenirs), for others history (things saved become information). And yet for others, storage is a provocative spectacle of material culture that hails the virtual as an ideal form of relief from the everyday problem of what to do with all this stuff. Ingrid Schaffner

Jun 19th

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