undead

to the archivist of the future:

how I would like my work preserved.
Well, first of all, why is nobody posting to the blog? are they letting the moment of the event and its memory die before they revive it? are they happy to just let it have happened and not preserve its memory in that state of forever being not what it was? I don't know. Dying, letting yourself die, letting your work be what it is without extending its life into an unnecessary unending future, should anything be archived? I remember the event as it was for me, different from what I wrote about it, but I wrote as close as I could to my memory at the time that I wrote it. My memory of performing the action of trying to remember and in doing so plunging myself into the frozen panicked state of excess, suspended falling and losing control because I was trying to maintain it. Does the very attempt to archive and preserve destroy the life of the original event? Should I wait to write about it until I have the perfect decision made and then execute?
The event itself was about simply diving headfirst into the future, into action before decision, into finding form through movement. Now the blog is halting, waiting, in a state of retention. I would like to keep the energy and freshness going.
But I don't really know how I would like to install the work.

I'm going to take a poll.

Workshop people, even you people from England, please respond and tell me which installation and preservation idea you prefer I want to know what people think and if you are checking and if you have any other ideas please let me know:

1) mount the bulletins on the wall in any arbitrary order with a magnetic metal strip along the bottom of the wall, on this strip I will have captions printed on magnets that people can rearrange.

2) arrange old archives on the wall in chronological order (following the archive list) beside or below this there will be each of the archives of the future dated and suspended in ziplock bags of ocean water. For each day of the exhibition puncture one of the bags so water slowly drips out of the bottom. The archives of the future will gradually become mouldy under the plastic and obscure the information on them.

3) bind the archives in a book. beside the book have a pen with instructions that ask people to describe on a blank space where they were on March 1st between 11am and 12pm and to write on their arm where they are now.

archivist of the future - I would like the work preserved in its original form on paper. The decay of the materials is an implicit part of the piece and should not be retarded or discouraged by migrating the work to any other form.
It can be installed in a gallery on a wall or table according to any of the 3 directions, and the installed formation can be photographed, videotaped or recorded to hologram, however this will always stand as a supplement to the paper that holds the melting snow in its ripples and smudges, and cannot be reproduced accurately.

I'm not committed to this, it's just an idea and I want to update it and improve it as I get feedback - so please people, write in! tell me what you think!