PROJECT ONE
Select ONE OBJECT which you regard as significant and worthy of being published and exhibited to represent the objects excluded from the category 'DESIGN' and its CULT; the equivalent of 'LA BILHA' or the metal POT made to make 'fios de ovos' (see above).
Consider how to present it with an ILLUSTRATION and a TEXT.
In the text include information to describe the objects, its name, material, origin, function/s, provenance, date of production, etc.
Then write a short evaluation of its quality and significance as a cultural artefacts worthy of being singled out for exhibition and archiving.
This may include how the different functions are integrated and what we can learn from the object today, in retrospect; since the exercise is not about promoting a COMMODITY or PRODUCT but a CULTURAL ARTEFACT.
PROJECT TWO: 'ALL THE OBJECTS I OWN'
1. Compile an INDEX of 'ALL THE OBJECTS YOU OWN'.
2. Prepare a photographic ARCHIVE
References:
Christian Boltanski, Inventario dos Objectos que pertenceram a una senhora idosa de Bäden-Bäden, 1973 (Serralves)
and Hans-Peter Fedman, Todas as roupas de uma mulher, 1974 (Serralves).
3. Reflect about what the sum of ALL THE OBJECTS YOUR OWNW add up to (as if you were an anthropologist) and write a short introduction to present the collection from an original, critical perspective.
PROJECT THREE (Continuation of Project Two)
Design an EXHIBITION and present a reading/s of some the key themes and meanings which arise from your COLLECTION of objects.
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