The Anecdote Archive involves recording video informally using the Flip camera and uploading to YouTube. Each issue of the Anecdote Archive is a compilation of short narrative accounts by individuals. The project proposes word-of-mouth as an alternative to conventional modes of documentation and distribution (such as exhibition and print magazine). Focusing on performances, situations, actions, exchanges and other ephemeral events, the archive aims to register memorable encounters with art.
“The fact that works of art to a large extent are tales, points to the folkloristic aspect of the artworld. In other words, the art world is a place for transmissions: someone has seen or heard of someone who has done something. The story is told and retold. As in any other oral culture there are misunderstandings, adjunctions, displacements and falsifications. The dependence on ‘what is on every lip’ creates a situation where works that are difficult to talk about run the risk of being neglected and ‘disappearing’. Sometimes an art practice escapes omission through stories about the artist as a person. Whatever one may think of this oral circulation of art — through formal seminars, think tanks, staged conversations, informal discussions, and not least through chatting at bars and cafés — it should be recognized as a place for art distribution equally important as the exhibition space and printed matter.”
—Magnus Bärtås from his essay Talk Talk in Geist
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