collecting -> archiving ?

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

By Annemieke Teresa van Twuijver – She is an artist who made archiving her art. Highly unconventional archiving that is: these ‘registries’ keep record of what regular archives are meant to avoid. Sculptor Cornelia Parker (UK, 1956) documents decay, destruction, oxidation, erosion, oblivion and the constant transitions of meaning. Her archives could be labelled ‘disappearing in progress’ and ‘forgetting under construction’ (with emphasis on the present continuous). Her pieces range from the jaw-dropping monumental (’preserving’ the white cliffs of England in the shape of a drapery) to the delicate fragility of intimate tenderness (white handkerchiefs with rubbings of the tarnish of silver family heirlooms). Other works include the wreckage of an exploded log cabin put together again in the shape of a log cabin and the char coaled parts of a church tower that was struck by lighting.