Project Description: Mutual Recording - the Archive. 10.2002


Mutual Recording_the Archive
cooperating r.d.
basis-wien 
November 2002


A collaborative project between Ricarda Denzer [r.d.] and Vibeke Jensen 
[VJ]. 
The project is an archive about an archive, exhibited in an archive.
It consists of 3 boxes; mailed from New York, one inside the other. 
Boxes and packaging are equal parts of the project, and may be arranged 
and explored in any desirable fashion.

list_of_contents:

box1 : 
US Postal Service Shipping Carton, 8" cube 
outside: 
express mail label & tape, postage 
USPS customs CN-22 form 
4 digital prints, 6.5" square, from a macro-photograph 
of the lawn at Festung Kufstein [VJ]
inside:
Instruction, List of contents, white cotton gloves

wrapped in conversation 1 : 
bubble wrap [VJ] 
with excerpts from conversation btw r.d. and VJ [r.d.] 

box2: 
custom made brown cardboard box, 7" cube 
outside: 
5 digital prints, 6.5" square from macro-photographs 
of r.d.'s archive "the mountain" [VJ] 
inside: 
9 digital prints, 7" square, from a photograph of 
r.d.'s archive "the mountain", 21" square [VJ] 

wrapped in conversation 2 : 
bubble wrap [VJ] 
with excerpts from conversation btw r.d. and VJ [r.d.] 

box3: 
black cardboard pinhole camera  [VJ], 5" cube 
outside: 
4 digital prints, 3.5" x 2.5", from video stills of r.d. 
and VJ recorded while talking on the phone from 
New York [VJ] to Wien [r.d.] 
inside shutter flap: 
instructions for using the pinhole camera 
1 digital print from a pinhole-photograph of 
r.d.'s archive "the mountain" [VJ], 5" square 
CD containing excerpts from conversation btw r.d. 
and VJ [r.d.] and digital files of all text [r.d.] and 
images [VJ] required to reconstruct the Archive. 
inside camera: 
unexposed photographic paper 

© vibeke jensen & ricarda denzer