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      CommentAuthorchris
    • CommentTimeFeb 15th 2007 edited
     
    this project is pretty cool...



    BEST BEFORE is an evolving project about the relationship between individual and object. Plastic bags have been placed on the doorsteps of homes throughout the New York City area, and individuals have contributed their 'expired' items, documented here as excerpts of small pasts in material form. This is the online archive of items donated to the BEST BEFORE project between August and October, 2006.

    While these objects are recorded with the stories they contain, once they expire, their context, use and relationship to the owner can somehow be rendered blank again. It is from this point that we can begin to reflect again upon the very objecthood of a thing--what it is and what it isn't, its potential and its failures. This becomes a means to beg the question, to search the ambiguous boundaries between personal and public, reality and fantasy and/or object and space. We investigate ideas of how each moment of the everyday can be constructed and captured as chance possibility as much as documented reality. It is a way of finding context within the city, playing with our constructions of daily life and reinventing them as both proposals and chance encounters with the everyday.
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      CommentAuthorkfconme
    • CommentTimeFeb 16th 2007 edited
     
    I've always just torn through peoples garbage... I guess it would be nice to have an explination for what I've collected.
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      CommentAuthorihc
    • CommentTimeFeb 16th 2007
     
    ^ freak

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