Archives, Deanne Achong




Excerpts from an archive de Deanne Achong (2001) est une oeuvre en ligne qui rassemble des biographies en pièces détachées, par le biais d’archives présentées sous diverses formes (photographies anciennes, textes, chansons, registres de naissances). L'internaute navigue parmi les textes et les images pour relier les bribes de vie à des personnages qui échapperont toutefois à une saisie globale.

Deanne Achong tient aussi un blog dans lequel elle documente tous les objets obsolètes qui l'entourent : « As an artist, I have kept a lot of stuff. Thinking one day it might have some kind of value. Not eBay value (although there’s that too) but become an idea for a project. Possibly I’ve imagined these things might magically assemble themselves into another type of object, present themselves to me as a story or at least a lead on a narrative that I want to pursue. I’m not giving up that hope, but I am hoping that by documenting their presence, I might detach from them and make the leap towards shoving (some of ) them out the door.Things become obsolete so fast now. Obsolescence is deliberately planned into many objects. »














Source: NT2, abécédaire, DeanneAchong, http://obsoproject.wordpress.com/