PROVENANCE: The Archive Show
Mistaken Presence at Greyfriars, Lincoln
12 April 2012 – 6 March 2013
Provenance marks the beginning of a yearlong project of new artist commissions that look to reflect on the nature of storing, displaying and re-telling of information. Each new commission will respond to the archival material shown during Provenance; thus adding to the existing archival material available on the site and creating a new layer of self-reflective historical relevance to the building.
Mistaken Presence is a 12 month curated project that explores the notion of an archive to develop a number of new works that re-look at the histories associated with The Greyfriars building and its original province. Each artist commission responds to an identical brief of uncovering forgotten historical narratives, thus the project both re-looks at the past whilst itself contributing a new layer of history to the site.
Curated by Alan Armstrong and John Plowman.
http://mistakenpresence.co.uk/
I was in Lincoln last night for Cupboard Love at Friary Studios at Greyfriars which featured my audio piece Blah Blah Blah. The archival Provenance project in the foyer space of the magnificent building, which also houses a ground floor exhibition space and artists studios, caught my eye. The “archival findings” cabinet resembles a display of remnants of the building’s former uses, but without any museum-esque object interpretation information. In constructing my own rubbish archive, I’m particularly interested to see how other artists present and respond to objects in connection with this context, and look forward to seeing how this project develops.
