November 2011
3 posts
Note on the Objectification of Memory
In cataloguing Acts of Disappearance and their constituent elements, I attempt the aestheticization of objects of memory; the individuated memory as art-object.
Needless to say, these memory-objects are fundamentally unstable. We carry them with us, named with a clarity both crystaline and superficial. As such they are a comfort to us. Through them we locate ourselves in relation to larger...
Note on the Arbitrary Separation of Acts
Strictly speaking, any separation between Acts of Disappearance as defined by delimited time-frame continuums, Geographic Shifts, Appearances, Vanishings, and Events are accepted as more or less arbitrary. The exercise of delineating individual Acts of Disappearance from one another serves an intention to assign meaning, stasis, and permanence to events, relationships and movements which are...
Acts of Disappearance, further defined
Acts of Disappearance often include the following tendencies:
1. A Chronology or time-frame which may or may not be known before completion of the Act itself.
2. A Site of Enclosure containing the topology of the Act in it’s totality, as nearly as can be determined. The Site of Enclosure includes all sub-sites, related Events, specific topographies, and Geographic Shifts.
2. A Geographic Shift,...