Ineligible
In advance of the construction of the Transbay Transit Center in San Francisco, archaeologists carried out standard excavations and recovered many 1000s of artifacts and features. Fifty-four boxes of artifacts deemed by the authorities to be of no cultural or historic value (in their terms “ineligible”) were signed over the Doug Bailey at San Francisco State University. In collaboration with Portuguese sculptor Sara Navarro, Doug has sent out over 80 assemblages of artifacts to artists, archaeologists, cultural producers, and creators with the basic art/archaeology instructions: disarticulate the objects from their archaeological contexts; repurpose those objects as if they were raw materials and then make new creative work with them; and make that work so that disrupts or engages a current issue or challenge of political or social focus.
The creative work produced will feature on this website, and a selection was installed at the International Museum for Contemporary Sculpture in Santo Tirso (Portugal) as part of the exhibition Creative (un)makings: Disruptions in Art/Archaeology that Doug and Sara Navarro co-curated from March-September 2020.
For details about the disarticulate-repurpose-disrupt methodology and logic, see DW Bailey 2017 Disarticulate – repurpose – disrupt: art/archaeology. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 27(4): 691-701.
For more information about the International Museum of Contemporary Sculpture in Santo Tirso follow this link:
http://miec.cm-stirso.pt/en/
Individual Ineligible work are available on this site:
L OST and FOOUND (Shaun Caton)
Door Knob (hand-held) (Ilana Crispi)
José Pedro’s Toolbox (Rui Gomes Coelho)
Decadence (Jéssica Burrinha)
Omission: Sterile Landscape (Tiago Costa)
Remember Wounded Knee (Laurent Olivier)
The catalogue for Creative (un)makings can be downloaded as a pdf for free from this link:
Creative (un)makings: Disruptions in Art/Archaeology
Papers presented at a conference that accompanied the Creative (un)makings is also available as a free download:
Ineligible: A Disruption of Artefacts and Artistic Practice
For details about the disarticulate-repurpose-disrupt methodology and logic, see DW Bailey 2017 Disarticulate – repurpose – disrupt: art/archaeology. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 27(4): 691-701 available from Doug’s academia.edu page:
For information about Sara Navarro’s work click here:
Work in progress
Some contributors are posting their work in-progress.
Fiona Harvey: https://www.a-n.co.uk/blogs/ineligible/