By: Miriam Mallalieu
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By: Miriam Mallalieu
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By: Miriam Mallalieu
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By: Miriam Mallalieu
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As part of Curating Living Archives artist and writer, Miriam Mallalieu, was commissioned to follow the workshops and map out key points discussed amongst the participants. Miriam used a process of observation, notetaking and recollection to create these records of the events, which, like constellations, map out fragments of ideas, statements and conversations. These records are deliberately incomplete: they are not able to capture and reproduce the events, but offer something new through the assemblage of scattered traces. They fold together ideas that emerged in the workshops: traces, ghosts, unruliness, control, affect, disappearance, witnessing, shifting.
The title of the work Fragments coming together to constitute new realities and new futures is a quote from the third workshop, shifted into a new context of describing the process of capturing these workshops.
Comissioned artist researcher
Miriam Mallalieu is an artist whose practice balances sculpture and storytelling, but also includes film, print and publication. Her doctoral research What does a museum think it is? Research and practice at the intersection of knowledge, interpretation and organisation (Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, 2018-2022) focused on ideas of ‘making sense.’ Through a methodology that she describes as ‘provocation through disruptive taxonomy’ she uses processes of reorganisation, repetition and deconstruction to draw attention to the structures by which things are understood. Her current project explores how objects in museum collections are changed through their context. Key issues include implications of active and passive objects, questions of significance, value and narrative, subjectivity and politics of collection, and how all of these contribute to form a structure that holds claim to universal or encyclopaedic representation.