---The Archive Projects

Archive - The lost analog archive of everything. An installation of 2000 boxes with unique lables, with video and performing actors.

This room-sized installation is part of a collaborative project begun in 2004. Originally conceived as a living environment that represented an externalization of the mind, "Archive" is a labyrinth visitors walk into made of 2,000 file storage boxes, each labeled and indicating the eccentric materials contained within. Taken together, the labels constitute a text which may be interpreted in many ways: a list of things someone feels they must save, a portrait of a personality or point of view, a hierarchal structure of information, or just irrational hoarding.

The result is an unexpectedly detailed view of an interior life, personality driven information hoarding where perhaps no rational system determines what is worth saving, and what can be safely forgotten. "Archive" has been described as a manifestation of the obsessive/compulsive hoarding disorder.

Versions of "Archive" have been exhibited in galleries in New York and Cologne, as well as Biennale Bonn, 2004; Basel/Miami, 2005 and 2006; Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, 2006; DeCordovaMuseum's New England Biennial, 2010; Santa Fe Center for Contemporary Art, 2010. "Archive" was part of Independent Curators International's traveling exhibition "Slightly Unbalanced" at six venues in the US and Canada.

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