Heritage at the juncture of remembering and forgetting.
The Immaterial Archive calls into question aspects of materiality that determine where heritage value is found. 'Human facing' materiality - function and use, location, context, wholeness etc. - are elements that reinforce our human-centric narrative of object meaning. Where these elements are absent or overridden, objects risk losing their claim to material significance and thus, heritage value. The Immaterial Archive aims to pay attention to the ways these decontextualised, peripheral or disregarded collections maintain a presence in the world and the networks of human-object-place relationships that still engage them.
The Immaterial Archive calls into question aspects of materiality that determine where heritage value is found. 'Human facing' materiality - function and use, location, context, wholeness etc. - are elements that reinforce our human-centric narrative of object meaning. Where these elements are absent or overridden, objects risk losing their claim to material significance and thus, heritage value. The Immaterial Archive aims to pay attention to the ways these decontextualised, peripheral or disregarded collections maintain a presence in the world and the networks of human-object-place relationships that still engage them.
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