User:Jonas Lund/Description of Work

Description

"This Too Shall Pass" was a site specific installation, made by Anika Schwarzlose and Jonas Lund, shown at the Second Act festival at the Brakke Grond, Amsterdam in September 2011. The installation consisted of four parts, a custom built paper shredder mounted on the wall, a webcam suspended in the ceiling above the shredder, one photographic print in an edition of six and a website (http://t2sp.net) displaying the view of the webcam live.

When the exhibition opened, the first edition of the print was placed in the paper shredder and the installation was activated. During the exhibition, each time a visit was recorded on the website, the paper shredder turned on for a third of a second and shredded a small part of the print, this continued until the print had been completely destroyed.

As soon as a print had been turned into shreds, the authors emerged from the crowd with white gloves on, carefully carrying the next print in the edition and placed it in the shredder. This continued until the entire edition had been depleted. The edition had been shredded in its entirety at 14:04 on the second day of the exhibition. After that point, there was a fairly large pile of shreds underneath the shredder.

The installation was documented photographing each of the different parts and how they related together. Next to that, the webcam was saving a picture every 10 seconds, which was later displayed as a time-lapse video.

Eleanor's notes:
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• Clearly states work's form and physical components
• Concisely describes the course of the work from start to finish

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• "website...displaying the view of the webcam" - what kind of view? What did it look like?
• "authors emerged from the crowd" - only on the opening night? or was there a crowd every day?