Insignificants – speculative fabulations for the incidental and useless
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Insignificants – speculative fabulations for the incidental and useless. / Sørensen, Tim Flohr.
In: Norwegian Archaeological Review, Vol. 56, No. 2, 2023, p. 214-228.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Insignificants – speculative fabulations for the incidental and useless
AU - Sørensen, Tim Flohr
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Insignificants was a collecting and exhibition experiment, composed around a series of twelve miniscule installations, mounted monthly between June 2019 and June 2020 (except July 2019). The format of the exhibition series was deliberately neglectable. In an attempt to permit insignificant things to remain precisely insignificant, the installations were conceptually and proportionally limited to a small bell jar exhibited at my department at the University of Copenhagen. In this bell jar, I exhibited selections of things dislodged from culture-historical relations, or which were not decodable through retrospective causalities. Exactly where these things came from, or how they ended up where I made contact with them, remain unknown to me. Hence, instead of focusing on the origins or meanings of things, the exhibitions sought to stage new encounters, exploring the aesthetic and epistemic qualities of insignificant and incidental things. This visual essay re-collects fragments of Insignificants.
AB - Insignificants was a collecting and exhibition experiment, composed around a series of twelve miniscule installations, mounted monthly between June 2019 and June 2020 (except July 2019). The format of the exhibition series was deliberately neglectable. In an attempt to permit insignificant things to remain precisely insignificant, the installations were conceptually and proportionally limited to a small bell jar exhibited at my department at the University of Copenhagen. In this bell jar, I exhibited selections of things dislodged from culture-historical relations, or which were not decodable through retrospective causalities. Exactly where these things came from, or how they ended up where I made contact with them, remain unknown to me. Hence, instead of focusing on the origins or meanings of things, the exhibitions sought to stage new encounters, exploring the aesthetic and epistemic qualities of insignificant and incidental things. This visual essay re-collects fragments of Insignificants.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Uvæsentlighed
KW - Arkæologi
KW - Indsamling
KW - Udstilling
KW - Epistemologi
KW - Æstetik
KW - eksperimentel arkæologi
KW - Insignificance
KW - Uselessness
KW - Incidentalness
KW - Speculative fabulation
KW - Archaelogy
KW - Aesthetics
KW - Exhibition experiment
KW - Epistemology
U2 - 10.1080/00293652.2023.2210579
DO - 10.1080/00293652.2023.2210579
M3 - Journal article
VL - 56
SP - 214
EP - 228
JO - Norwegian Archaeological Review
JF - Norwegian Archaeological Review
SN - 0029-3652
IS - 2
ER -
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