Memories
January 28, 2010
“The playful take on memories and storytelling was arranged like a simple library with long shelves of rough planks mounted from floor to ceiling lined with mason jars each housing an object and an identifying tag. A bespectacled archivist sat at an old wooden desk (with a very modern computer) to record the transactions. I guess questions of nostalgia are never far from the surface in design and art. We’re always playing off of something from the past. In this case, semi-anonymous object-story-memories are the focus of the art, but in a very ephemeral way. They become commodities with exchange value, and they float in and out of the archive, like they would in the mind of a person or community.”
I would like to thank Toronto Craft Alert for this eloquent description of the room, which has really inspired a new section on the site called Memories. Please share with us your stories of discovery in the Archival Library.
Thanks Maggie!
I liked your project quite a lot. I would have made an exchange, but I was in a bit of a rush-rush mode.
I also didn’t realize that the archive existed outside of that installation, and I’ll be sure to check back here.
Thanks Adam! We are uploading all the objects online this week… and looking at ways of keeping it a living project online.