I present this final post and diptych as an ode to the husband and wife of Archive 1.0019. Witness features two monochromatic photographs that focus on the fragile nature of memory. After engaging so closely with Archive 1.0019, I became obsessed with highlighting the universal condition of the vulnerability of memory. I occupied my practice […]
Immersed in Archive 1.0019 – Monique Prinsloo
The role of time and its imminent disintegration, the loss of information, and the loss of memory itself becomes prominent when one considers an object from an archive, and my point of departure for the Saudade project was strongly influenced by this idea. Considering the fact that I could not in any way authentically experience […]
Things that express the essence – Masaaki Oyamada
I believe that the essence of a person is defined not by his or her various life experiences or career, but by much simpler things such as what he or she thinks and why he or she chooses to live. Those are the easier parts to identify who the person is. In the last project, […]
The life of an archival object – Christopher Squier
By Christopher Squier While working on this project, my thought processes have adapted from thinking specifically about the loss of vision and hearing, as described in the archive letters, to looking at forms of decay and degradation on the photographs themselves: weather marks and natural acids that have created colorful ‘blooms,’ like nebulas or fireworks […]
Exploring the EAC photo archive and its associations – Christopher Squier
By Christopher Squier Throughout the research and experimentation phase of the project, I made a selection of a number of photographs that have inspired me. I’ve been considering a photograph of a snake—an image I like for the way the snake seems to be slithering from the area of focus in the photograph out to […]
Collecting stories – Thomas Nondh Jansen
Whilst browsing through the collected stories of the archive, and doing further research, I felt a sort of longing. Although I could not describe it, it was tangible; a longing for their children and grand-children, loved ones and the world they left behind. I started wondering what home means and what it means to be ‘far away’. One […]
Required Fields: A short history of Pulau Kemaro island – Natalie McIlroy
Since my last post I have spent time researching the history of Palau Kemaro, a small island near Palembang in South Sumatra. This was where the donor of my chosen collection lived as a girl. It is a small island but one of historical and touristic significance. Today it is a place where tourists go […]
Shifting Degrees of Certainty – Monique Prinsloo
The nature of an archive is weighted with shifting degrees of certainty. It is an image of an occurrence. Accounts of an event that was deemed important to record. And that historical background; those personal words penned onto paper; that moment captured on film, will continuously be in movement and will carry on to advance […]
BUAYA / CROCODILE
Just like I explained in my first blog my ‘working method’ is to take a quote from the memoirs and let my memories go. This time the quote from the memoirs is: Bagoes Koening was alleen een woonwijk aan de Musi (zeg Moesi), een rivier vol krokodillen … “Bagus Kuning was a residential area on […]
Artefact #1: A New Found Tradition – Janne van Gilst
Artefact #1, first sketch, © Janne van Gilst First and foremost: great news! Through my last blog post I got in contact with the Dutch magazine ‘Archievenblad’, which specialises in writing about, and for, all kinds of national Dutch archives. They were very interested in the ‘Saudade’ project and are publishing an article in their […]