This is a little text I made for people who attended the open house to introduce the play of archiving. As soon as I scan some of the booklets that people used I will put them online too.
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Category Archives: Transmedia (2002 – 2004)
How to make a text for a publication:
19.05.2004 – 13:18
1. Find out what the topic of the publication is. I was asked by Constant to make a text following the seminar the Lining of Forgetting for a publication about VJ7. 2. Choose the material that you would like to work with. I decided to work with the discussion recorded on the second day of […]
How to do interviews:
19.05.2004 – 13:17
1. Ask people in advance. I asked De Geuzen, Anja Westerfrölke, and Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas before they arrived in Brussels if they would agree to have a recorded discussion with me about archives. 2. Write your questions. Make them about what you want to know. Don’t make them too complicated because they might be […]
How to be a respondent:
19.05.2004 – 13:17
1. Do a little research. I was asked by Constant to be a respondent for the Lining of Forgetting, a two-day seminar about archiving that was organised as part of VJ7. This meant that I was supposed to lead a discussion with the invited guests. So the first thing I did was to find out […]
How to use a webblog as part of your research process:
19.05.2004 – 13:16
How to use a webblog as part of your research process: 1. Find a webblog space and software. I used MovableType software, because this is what they use at Constant and it was Constant who gave me the server space. However, you can find a lot of webblogs for free online. 2. Upload things as […]
The Living Archive
19.05.2004 – 13:11
My sister and I made a quilt for my daughter for her first Christmas. A quilt is a type of blanket made from pieces of fabric sewn together. This quilt is a patchwork of different fabrics which were chosen by my sister. The quilt is called a rag quilt because it is sewn in such […]
Intimacy as an Archiving Process
19.05.2004 – 13:10
I have a book about Louise Bourgeois. It was made after a retrospective of her work at the CAPC in Bordeaux. This book contains drawings, excerpts from her diaries, letters, and interviews with Louise Bourgeois. When I came upon this book it amazed me because it was the first book that gave me an insight […]
Hospitality and the Archive
19.05.2004 – 13:09
There is a specific passage in Jacques Derrida’s book Archive Fever which reads: ‘It is thus, in this domiciliation, this house arrest, that archives take place.’ Derrida states this after speaking about the place of residence of the archive in a physical sense and the power that the place of residence indicates – the power […]