collecting -> archiving ?

People will always surprise me!

Yesterday a friend’s testimony about his friends collection habit absolutely stroke me.. Unfortunately is only the testimony of my friend that have to be taken as the proof, since the ‘collector’ is no longer in town and his tracks are a bit lost. But my friend is a Swedish person and that says it all!

The conversation was just yesterday over some drinks but till now, that I type these words, I can’t recall how and why he gave this example of this bizzaar collection. the shock wave was so big that is the only thing I have as memory and I can resist in sharing it!

The collection: tags from female underwear!

- you know this litlle information tag mostly by the designer.

When in a bar he would ask females around – very kindly!- if he could have it. And in most of the cases he did! – the testimony says that he is a quite, polite guy that has lots of sense of humor, so I guess that helped him in getting them. By the end of a night out he would have around 15 of these female underwear tags.

He never asked his partners for one or even his one night stands..

We have no information of how he was archiving it, but we know he kept them..

Another absurdity is that he ALWAYS was curring with him a little scissor – nail scissor style- so to cut up the little tag!

During this lesson we all heard about strange, peculiar, absurd, weird habits and laughed a lot.

in my opinion this collection is the epitome of all collections. This collector is the beginning and the end in the history of collections!..

to be continued…….

My friends

What is a Cabinet of Curiosities?

Leonie Oortgijsen

Carnavalesque Medicine

Leonie Oortgijsen

Just who is collecting what is of great concern to Mr. Macdonald of the Museum of the City of New York. From mayoral papers to fliers of the missing, the artifacts from this event will be of potential interest to historians, he said, and ”it would be unfortunate if museums, libraries and archives viewed this as a competition.”

Leonie Oortgijsen

Leonie Oortgijsen

Linda’s exhibition at the Emory Visual Arts Gallery, Collecting Excursions, was a culmination of many years of environmental research and experimentation within Georgia, as well as an exploration of tree bark and mushroom specimens she collected while participating in a residency at the Caversham Centre for Artists and Writers in South Africa. “Transporting foreign bark and mushrooms back to the United States can be tricky,” she remembers with a smile. “I sometimes feel like an artist outlaw.” In addition to the specimens from South Africa, the exhibition will examine the relationship between trees and mushrooms through the inclusion of a dead tree that Linda found in Grant Park

Leonie Oortgijsen

THE IT-BOX by janne

THE IT-BOX:
this box contains heaven and hell

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SOUL COLECTOR by maaike & dennis

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FLUID COLLECTOR

Stick it in any moisty material and the juices will start to flow. Never spills a drop.

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ANTI DATING GAME by Olfa & Xana

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ECP  | DUTCH VERSION

Collect and project your special moments in live with the ECP (Emotional Collector Projector) Put the unique moment air in the ECP and your special memories will always be there for you.
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watch?v=AVden4ngsMo

www.flikr.com, personal collection bynini/mostly away’s

Reflexion: how is it classified/catagorised/organised?
Execution: Photo’s that she executed. Imported for her is (why and how she categorised it) the kind of lens she uses. Sigma 18-50mm, Sigma 18-50mm, Sigma 55-200mm, Nikon E 50mm 1.8, Lensbaby 2.0, Tamron 28-80mm, My first HOLGA, Old ones – not SLR. Categorial: Human, Natural and Urban.

Why is it classified like this?
Firstly: What kind of lens did she uses. To see what the difference in result is between the lenses. To try out the technical possibilities of itch kind of lens. She is investigating the technical process of photography. She even took a picture of her camera! Second: What is one the picture. What is the subject on the picture. The subject one the picture is important for her. Not how she felt while taking it or in what kind of mood she was. 

Other parts of society could organize this collection completely different. For instance an other photographer can have categories like; Stills, Travel, People, Landscape, Structures, Animals.
But an artist could have categories like; Conceptual, Documentary, Working process, Investigation, Inspirational. And I would categorize it very different too. By date to see the process I have gone though. Than it is more about my capabilities than of what the camera can do.

www.flikr.com, personal collection of surya

Reflection: how is it classified/catagorised/organised?
By subject what is on the picture: Iceland, Nature, Film, People, Diptych, Partsiculs, Bits&pieces. Other categories are: Polaroid (material), Foggy adventure (mood, experience), Favourites (personal rating).

Why is it classified like this?
Firtly: what is one the picture. What is the subject on the picture. The subject one the picture is important for her. Not how she felt while taking it or in what kind of mood she was etc. Second: the three other categories are interesting. Polaroid say’s something about the material but if you see what is one it she is not really investigating this different material, they look more like snapshots taken on the side. They look very personal. Foggy adventure is to me all about a mood and life. It is really documenting an experience. The viewer can feel the weather by looking at the picture. For Surya it is very important weather the action of taking the picture lead to an successful result or not, you can see this in the category; my and others favourites. They are all pictures of other categories selected. Together they form the category favourites she is rating her personal and others appreciation for the pictures. She organizes the pictures in order of how well it succeeded.

Other parts of society could organize this collection completely different. Ordered in categories like personal and business. Ore not by what is one it but by date taken. Ore if she succeeded in capturing the moment. That would be important for me personally.

Surya is more organizing by feeling than Nini is, she just rationalizes photography.

www.flickr.com/photos/ginger2003/collections/
www.flickr.com/photos/39263149@N00/sets/

Museum De Paviljoens in Almere presents a good collection of artists who work with concepts as collecting, archiving, taxonomy and others. The exhibition stresses on a certain way of working and acting as a collector within a city of human interventions.

Go there.

http://www.depaviljoens.nl/page/688/nl