Unofficial Deposited Records; Elsebeth Jørgensen and Pia Rönicke, 2005

Elsebeth Jørgensen and Pia Rönicke: Unofficial Deposited Records (2005–> )
A commission for the hoardings on Tate Modern’s south landscape.
From 25 November 2005 —>

Tate Modern - Press release: 21 November 2005

On 25 November Tate and EDF Energy will unveil an art project specially commissioned from Danish artists Elsebeth Jørgensen and Pia Rönicke for the hoardings on the south perimeter of Tate Modern. The artists have created a gigantic bulletin board, or montage, from a fascinating array of material including old photographs, newspaper clippings, historical documents and maps which all relate to the Southwark area. The material has been selected from their research in the archives of the Southwark Local History Library on nearby Borough High Street. Jørgensen and Rönicke have also invited members of Tate Modern’s Community Film Club to contribute material which will add to the project’s visual narrative about Southwark such as photographs, texts and reminiscences.

The project, Unofficial Deposited Records, questions how we represent history, demonstrating how fact and fiction can combine to provide fertile ground for imaginative exploration.

Elsebeth Jørgensen and Pia Rönicke’s interest in archives focuses on how facts and narrative interweave with official and unofficial records. Like museums, archives contain cultural data and can be viewed as deposits for memories, where meanings are constantly shifting in relation to the context in which material is seen. The artists’ montage suggests narratives by triggering the viewer’s imagination and highlighting the tenuous link between fact and fiction in our reading of history.

Más en la página de Elsebeth Jørgensen, Mapping memory.