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The car-age
Patrick Nagatani Bentley, Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, 1987 Nagatani informs us that in 1985, a Japanese archeologist named Ryoichi received a mysterious set of maps that led him to...
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Apologetic Archaeology
Guillaume Bijl Archaeological Site (A Sorry Installation), 2007 Right in the middle of a grassy area on the Sentruper Höhe by Lake Aa with nothing but trees and meadows around, is a milestone of...
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The Dogs From Pompei
Allan McCollum The Dog From Pompei, 1991 Cast glass-fiber- reinforced Hydrocal Mount Vesuvius was blazing in several places…A black and dreadful cloud bursting out in gusts of igneous serpentine vapor...
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Concrete Casting
Rachel Whiteread House, 1993 concrete, (destroyed) House, perhaps Whitereads best known work, was a concrete cast of the inside of an entire Victorian terraced house completed in autumn 1993,...
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The Way of the Shovel: On the Archeological Imaginary in Art
By Dieter Roelstraete He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. —Walter Benjamin1 [Preliminary admonition: there is no disgrace in seeking to define either...
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Digging up the Future: On the Imaginary Archaeology in Art and other Sciences.
[a reaction to Dieter Roelstraete’s The Way of the Shovel: On the Archeological Imaginary in Art /e-flux journal] by Maarten Vanden Eynde, April 2009 ‘The present returns the past to the future’ –...
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Modern Fossils
Christopher Locke Modern Fossil – Asportatio Acroamatis, 2009 (commonly referred to as the Cassette Tape) ‘These Modern Fossils are made from actual archaic technology that was once cutting-edge. Most...
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Modern Fossils
Hester Oerlemans Modern Fossils in asphalt, 2003 Recognisable objects like a wind rose, a mobile phone, a key, a pair of scissors, a safety pin, a ring and also words and poems were rolled into the...
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The Controller of the Universe
Damián Ortega Controller of the Universe, 2007 Damián Ortega’s Controller of the Universe, a series of found hand tools suspended in mid air, is a site of danger and otherworldliness. As if in mid...
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DIY Art
Michael Johansson Some Assembly Required – Crescent scale 1:1, 2007 ‘As a child I was fascinated by building models. I remember breaking off the pieces from the surrounding plastic sticks that were...
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Contemporary Cavepaintings
Maarten Vanden Eynde Contemporary Cavepaintings, Los Angeles, 2007 The first manifestation of human presence and expression of individual touch, was the creation of hand-marks; negative prints of...
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Time as a Vertical Dimension
Walter De Maria Vertical Earth Kilometer, 1977 A km-long rod of metal was buried vertically in the ground. The boring of the shaft, which goes through six geological layers, took seventy-nine days. The...
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Today is the Tomorrow of Yesterday
Pierre Bismuth Today is the Tomorrow of Yesterday-Relaps, 2008 In Today Is The Tomorrow of Yesterday celebrity magazine covers are treated as precious fragments from a long lost civilization. The...
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Trash Antiquity
Leonid Tsvetkov grabs recyclable materials out of dumpsters and trash bins—plastic bottles, Styrofoam take-out packages, cardboard egg cartoons, soda cans and more—puts them in concrete casts, and then...
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Lunar Archaeology
In 1969, the third man to walk on the moon, astronaut Charles “Pete” Conrad Jr., also became the first lunar archaeologist. As part of the Apollo 12 crew, he examined an earlier robotic lander,...
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