What is documented?
What is archived?
What is remembered?
Who decides what is documented/archived/remembered?
The archive can remember for us.
What is missing?
At have mistet tråden på forkant, det været givet, at ikke kunne overkomme dette, at være fortabt // forudbestemt // Ikke at kunne følge med, ikke at have fulgt op, ikke at have resurserne til at følge // Ikke at kunne være tilsæde i det tembo, hvori alt omkring sker, rundt omrking //
What is paper? // What is it made of? // Who made it? // For the purpose of text? // Of knowledge? // Of news? // A paper? // As a document? // And handcrafted paper? // Recycled paper? // From what is it recycled? // Can paper function in an endless loop? // From the woods, to the people, around in the people’s world, and around and around? //
Hvad går ind i arkivet? // Hvad bliver valgt fra? // Valgt til? // Udvalgt? // Unladt? // Hvilken information? // Hvilken del af sandheden bliver arkiveret til fremtiden // Arkiveret i historien? // Det som skrives ned, putttes i systemer og varetaget? // Det som bliver grundlaget for at lære om fortiden? // I fremtid? //
How do you make a map of what is missing?
How do you find something when you don't know where it is?
Re-trace your steps? Describe what is missing to others? Reminisce? Share? Look in places where you expect, look in places you wouldn't? Look for clues, look for evidence? Go through what is there with the absence of what isn't.
What is translation? // A translation? // Who do translations? // Who are being translated // Why do we translate? // Is it difficult to translate? // The availability to speak across? // To understand? // And reply? // To become a translator? // The education to become a translator? // What has been lost in translation? // To translate feelings? //
What goes in or out? // In and out from the library? // Do most books go out, or most books in? // Do mosre books go out for more books to go in? // What does outdated mean? // Outdated from where? // Outdated for who? // And will it just never come back to relevance? // Who is taking that decision? // What isn’t relevant, anymore? // When knowledge gets outdated? // When a method gets outdated? // Replaced whit a better one? // When the document is physical, and has to be replaced, is the old one thrown away? // When is it outdated from the library? //
To spread the thoughts? // To spread the message? // Around? // To get it somewhere? // Wider? // To make it public? // To let it reach the world? // To share it with people around? // People who you know? // People you don’t ?// Give the information to the society? // Let the society know? // To make it available to others? //
Who has access? // Why do they have access? // Who doesn't have access? // Why don't they have a access? // Who wants access? // Who gives access? // What gives access? // And what blocks it? // Can it be proven to be blocked? // And then there's access to the art world? // What is required to gain access to the game of those structures? //
When you search on DuckDuckGo, “distribution” the first image that shows up a truck, a drawing of a truck on some kind of a map structure, with a rote, a truck driving from A to the next sign, B, and on its way to the destination C // On the black line between moving boxes and the sentence “What is distribution, and why is it important?” //
“Is a star a document? //
Is a pebble rolled by torrent a document? //
Is a living animal a document? //
[Briet, Suzanne] //
How is information distributed? How do you navigate in the increasing sea of content? When does content
-> information -> knowledge?
document? // are we a
document? // is the moon a
document? // is a child a
document? // is a book shelf a
document? // is an apple a
document? // is a song a
document? // is an instrument a
document? //
: to form (letters, figures, etc.) carefully or painstaikingly
: to copy (something, such as a drawing) by following the lines or letters as seen through a transparent superimposed sheet
: to record a tracing in the form of a curved, wavy, or broken line
trace the heart action
: to follow or study in detail or step by step
trace the history of the war
: to discover by going backward over the evidence step by step
trace your ancestry
: to discover, signs, evidence, or remains of
: to follow the footprints, track, or trail of
(source: https://merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trace, date accessed: 16.10.2025)
How do we tell stories?
Which stories are remembered?
And whos stories aren't heard?