Archivetemporal
Archivetemporl is, much like the humble potato, defined by time as well as its material qualities, its vulnerability to disease and decay, its flexibility and its connection to the environment it inhabits. We encourage you to interact with this archive through a detemporalized lens by navigaing the overlapping themes and concepts that have defined Objects as Temporal Entities
- Mon 06 May 2024
- Article by Marina Valle Noronha
- Diagram from Conservation of Plastics: Materials Science, Degradation, and Preservation by Yvonne Shashoua
- Fri 19 April 2024
- Agnes Varda at LUMA Arles
- Brainstorming notes
- Digital potato
- Hosting PVC trimmings
- La Formation LUMA Arles
- LUMA Atelier waste sorting area
- PLA 3-D printing at LUMA Atelier
- walking outside LUMA park
- Tue 16 April 2024
- Sculpted potato
- Mon 15 April 2024
- Kelly Jazvac sculpts potatoes
- Sun 14 April 2024
- Markings in rock at Alyschamps Roman ruins
- PVC in Arles
- Fri 12 April 2024
- Notes for potato plant flowchart
- Speculative potentials for PLA plastics, latex and felt
- Thu 11 April 2024
- Eating together
- Investigating clay samples at LUMA Atelier
- Potato assemblage at Agnes Varda exhibition
- Wed 10 April 2024
- Exploring bioregional materials at LUMA Atelier
- Tue 09 April 2024
- Arles streets, material encounters
- Kim Kraczon teaches us about plastics degradation
- Researching materials to create potato replicas
- Mon 08 April 2024
- Exploring bioregional architecture at LUMA Arles
- Felt press machine at LUMA Arles
- Salt at LUMA Atelier
- Waste at LUMA Arles
- Fri 05 April 2024
- PLA plastics at LUMA Arles
- Texture of bioplastics filament at LUMA Atelier
- Thu 04 April 2024
- LUMA Atelier publications
- Sun 31 March 2024
- Exploring Les Forges
- Féria de Pâques in Arles
- Fri 29 March 2024
- Flamingos outside Arles
- Salt in Salin de Giraud, Camargue
- Thu 28 March 2024
- The Original Potato
- Tue 26 March 2024
- Introduction to bioplastics 3-D printing at LUMA Atelier
- Sun 24 March 2024
- Ancient Roman art in Arles
- Wed 20 March 2024
- Visiting Agnes Varda's exhibition at LUMA Arles
- Tue 19 March 2024
- Arles streets
- Mon 18 March 2024
- Exploring bioregional architecture at LUMA Atelier
- Introduction to bioregional materials at LUMA Atelier
Belmonda // MULTIPLICITY exemplifies the copy, the iteration or mediation across our multifaceted work. The Belmonda potato is a high yield variety. Its commitment to multiplication speaks to our work making ceramic potato replicas, risograph prints and digital potatoes.
In Blackleg // DECAY sift through the entropic breakdown of matter which is celebrated in Objects as Temporal Entities. Blackleg, a potato disease caused by Pectobacterium atrosepticum bacteria, is the archivist's symbol for decomposition, or a natural life cycle of material breakdown.
The Delila // TEMPORALITY French potato variety has a long dormancy period combined with a high resistance to blight, making it the ideal potato to represent temporality. In this section explore our investigation of how, despite human intervention, all matter is beholden and exists within time.
The Earth Apple // ENVIRONMENT is used in over six languages to describe the humble potato. The archivist uses the Earth Apple to signal the relations with the land that were developed during the course of our work.
In Goldrush // WASTE you may navigate our various encounters with detritus, waste and byproducts. The Goldrush is a potato variety with midseason maturity, upright growth and most notably a high yield, making it an ideal potato for french fries (1). The Goldrush russet typifies cycles of consumption and mass production that often lead to a proliferation of waste, planting more potatoes than are needed, to make fries we cannot eat (2).
Le Bonnotte // BIOREGIONALISM is an expensive luxury potato, grown in Île de Noirmoutier, an island in the Bay of Biscay. These potatoes are grown in sandy soil that absorbs ocean scent and are fertilized by algae and picked by hand one week of the year (3).
Leucoplasts or potato starch // PLASTICITY represents our keen interest in malleable materials, including PLA bio-plastics. Starch grain from the potato tuber is extracted by crushing raw potatoes that then release starch grains from the destroyed cells. Potato starch has a high binding strength that, to the archivist, mimics a plasticity.
The Norland // COLLABORATION red potato is known for its ability to adapt to different soils, making this variety an ideal symbol of transience, flexibility, and collaboration (4). In this section, you might find meetings between our many collaborators, notes, and shared resources.
In Solanum Tuberosum // MATERIALITY parse through our exploration of materials, as we think through our interactions with wool, plastics, seaweed, concrete, salt and other matter that is sometimes art. Solanum tuberosum is the scientific name for the potato plant, it is the origin of potato varieties, and reminds the archivist that each potato is a nutrient storage system (tuber) for a perennial nightshade. To the archivist, the Solanum Tuberosum is a reminder to foreground the entirety of a being or material, to acknowledge the full life of the potato.
Yukon Gold // ART OBJECT ARCHIVED variety is, much like an art object, characterized by an attractive appearance and excellent storability (5). This potato variety embodies qualities that make a case for its archival potential, if it can avoid Blackleg and blight. In this section, sift through our interrogation of the art object archived in Objects as Temporal Entities.