Category: Field Work Document
These field work documents are gathered during our Interpretive Field Projects (IFP), journeys to foreign sites that jumpstart new ICI research topics. With few plans other than a starting location, a string of confluent events and ‘travel guides’ chart the rest of the journey yielding a wealth of uncontextualized raw material for the ICI repository. The interpretive aspect of the IFP occurs once we have returned home and often after a large gap of time. Past IFPs have included: The Origins of Madness (Vienna, Buttenhausen, Gugging, Salzburg); It Takes Two Traumas to Make a Trauma (Auschwitz, Berlin, Amsterdam); Cults (Graceland, Carlsbad, Tinkertown, Bibleland); Searching for Sebald (East Anglia, London, The Hague) and An Inconvenient Camera (Gränna, Sweden; London and Berkeley).
This Could Be a Place of Historical Significance
In 1980, Braco Dimitrijević built an engraved slab into the pavement outside the Cathedral in Cologne, Germany. This photo was taken in January of 1992. Dimitrijević’s critique of history relies not only on language, the usual fodder of sign systems, but on the forms we … Continue readingThis Could Be a Place of Historical Significance
EARTH SAMPLE: Grave of Rabbi Loew, Prague
Accession #: ICI-21614
EARTH SAMPLE: Venice, Italy
Accession #: ICI-21644
EARTH SAMPLE: Somerleyton Maze, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Accession #: ICI-22209
Traveling Images from Sebald’s Rings of Saturn
Images from W. G. Sebald’s Rings of Saturn, refashioned into traveling postcards.
Earth Cabinet: Chimayo dirt
TITLE: Photo of the ‘dirt hole’ at the Sanctuary in Chimayo, New Mexico (c. 1994). DESCRIPTION: Photo of ‘dirt hole’ inside the sanctuary. Since the 1900s, the dirt has been linked to numerous miraculous cures. Over 1/4 of a million people make the pilgrimage to this … Continue readingEarth Cabinet: Chimayo dirt
ICI Method: Copying
In art schools near and far, it is still a tradition for young artists to copy the masterworks of art history in oils on canvas. The comparable tradition has, for the most part, died out in the training grounds of literature, a trend that the ICI … Continue readingICI Method: Copying
EPHEMERA KABINETT: Traumbagger’s Ur image
TITLE: “Dreaming” DESCRIPTION: An iconic image from Axel Forrester’s archive that has figured prominently in ICI mythology. Donor: Lise Patt ICI LOCATION: Photo Cabinet ICI HISTORY: Laboratory Blog: HOLES (revisited) rhizome (12/2012)
EPHEMERA KABINETT: Sebald’s Grave Holes
Title: “Sebald’s Holes” Description: Photo field document from an ICI Interpretive Field project – Searching for Sebald. Many photos were taken on that trip, some of which seem to come from deep memories that had yet to form in consciousness. Only when the group returned … Continue readingEPHEMERA KABINETT: Sebald’s Grave Holes