Erasure
2011
Single-channel color video with sound, found photographs, stone, wooden boat fragments, wood walkway, computer, scanner, dedicated website (erasurearchive.net)
Commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, 2011
Supported by Nicholas and Angela Curtis
Installation view: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, 2011
Photo: Aaron de Souza
Mori Art Museum is calling for volunteers to help out in archiving photographs at the exhibition "Dinh Q. Lê: Memory for Tomorrow" which will start from July 25, 2015.
Dinh Q. Lê is the world's most outstanding Vietnamese artist who places himself between Vietnamese and American culture.
In Dinh Q. Lê's installation Erasure, the artwork the volunteers participate, the artist, who as a child fled Vietnam with his family via Thailand to the U.S., addresses his own background as a refugee. Most of the photographs covering the floor were left behind by people fleeing their homeland in the middle of the Vietnam War. By archiving each of these photographs, Lê hopes the work will bring back the personal memories of the individuals forced to flee their homeland and seek asylum abroad that are locked inside these small photographs.
Volunteers will be asked to scan the photographs that cover the gallery floor, and upload them to the project website. The archiving work will take place in the gallery space, as part of the artwork, during opening hours of the museum. No special skills or qualifications are required. As long as you have basic computer skills, you are welcome to apply.
For more details such as terms and conditions, please check the website, here:
■Relevant information
・"Dinh Q. Lê: Memory for Tomorrow"
Saturday, July 25 - Monday, October 12, 2015
