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).
EARTH SAMPLE: Pond of Ashes from Birkenau, Poland
ACCESSION #: ICI 21641
We did this all…
This is our favorite photo from the documentation of our research trip to Tinkertown, an outsider artist project in New Mexico and we use it as both beacon and salvo for our own project even though (or maybe, because) it’s congratulatory and accusatory signification is … Continue readingWe did this all…
Re-walking the Rings
White pumpkin from East Anglia, UK. In 2004, an ICI research team re-walked W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn. The trip became the lynchpin for our third book, Searching for Sebald. The pumpkin caught our eyes as an emblem of Sebald’s chromophobia.