Laura Edith Guy

Miscellaneous Leaflet No. 2

Misc. Leaflet 2/12, Visual Drama, Fiona Tait

The second in the edited series, released 01.07.2010 at mac.

Fiona Tait is archivist at Birmingham Archives and Heritage. The essay is an amended version of the text that first appeared in Source Photographic Review in Spring 2009.

ISBN 978-1-907796-01-2

Vision Forum / Project After S

In Winter 2009 I was invited to participate in the Vision Forum Programme hosted by KSM at Linköpings Universitet in Sweden. The award will allow me to develop a new body of visual research titled ‘Project After S’. The project investigates the possible application of Utopian imagination and archeological method to research an ancient history of Shenzhen, a city that is in fact only 25 years old.

Extract: …On returning from China I tell you about: buildings, century eggs, the lack of history, the impossible length of history.
I have seen that: Shenzhen presents to us a field of history that is (was actually) flattened, compacted, developed (at great speed), and somehow made miniature.
Old eggs: alike to finds from archaeological digs. (Do you know the process? By which they’re gathered, wrapped in rice and tea and buried in the earth – practically archaeology in reverse)…

‘Project After S’ began whilst working on Inheritance-Shenzhen in China during Winter 2009 and is kindly supported by Inheritance Projects and Vision Forum. The work will be presented at Linköpings Universitet, Sweden in Autumn 2010.