Thinking about REFLECTING LOCATIONS I ask myself about the meaning of PRESENTATION, REPRESENTATION, REINTERPRETATION. How do I „create“, explore, feel the sense of place. What it means to build an Archive of typicalness. That very fast come in my mind and ARCHIVE OF ABSURDITY. Am I a colonization traveler? Am I an explorer in my own city? Am I part of the sistem? Is all connect? Or am I a stranger?
I ask myself where is the connecting spaces? If not in plural, but the connecting spaces is a space. INTERNET. A place that connect the both cities but has no borders.
Maybe the City is a viewer, an imput, the internet the place, the other City the output..
Furthermore, I am thinking on souvenir. On Archival. How do you archive a city?
What are the tipical, what are the stories to tell.
I could imagine to develope City sculptures. Like artefacts. Like souvenirs, like storyteller.
Interaction. I am open. To create something new? Is about any location? Or is about Zh and HK?
I am fascinated by the 3d Programs in internet like 123D Catch. Create objects, a 3D object, that exist on internet, and everyone can print all over the world.
Those “sculptures” don’t really need to be only physical.. it could be sound, smells, lights…
Hi Morena,
I find there are a lot of ideas in your post, I particularly like your proposition of “ARCHIVE OF ABSURDITY”, I am looking forward to how you develop you concept with co-artist:
– The stereotype on form of archive -> how do people normally think of “archive”?
– How do you archive? <- which I think it determines the nature of the project, the action of archiving is already an act of art, or political / cultural gesture
– "Absurdity" vs "Everydayness" / "Typical-ness"<- how do we define "absurdity"
– what aspect of "City"
– "Internet" as a virtual representation of a "space" <-What about time? time and space are interconnected somehow
Hi Chung,
Thank you very much for your comment.
It is very helpful to see how you present my idea in topics.
I have been surrounding the idea of Archive since a while.
There is a very nice Catalog about the exhibition of Peggy Buth “desire of representations”.
Do you know it?
If you want, give me your email and I can send you scan of the textes. there are nice reflection about archiving inside.