Thomas Rentmeister, ‘Museum’ (2002)
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Christian Capurro
‘Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette‘ (1999 – 2004) by Christian Capurro.
Christian Capurro asked anonymous people to erase a page from a 246-page issue of Vogue Hommes magazine from 1986. They were also asked to write in pencil on their erased page both the time it took them to do this and whatever monetary value they currently received at work for their time, translated into an hourly rate or rates. The erasing took 5 years to complete and involved over 250 people.
Maria Anwander
Erased Pictures from Flash Art Nr.259 (2008) by Maria Anwander
The information from the pictures erased from an art magazine (flash art nr. 259) is saved in the crumbs of the eraser. Each picture is packed in a plastic bag numbered with the page belonging to it. The viewer can only imagine what pictures were shown by reading the text.
Hyperthymesia & anterograde amnesia
Louise Owen, the woman in this video, has a very extreme form of hyperthymesia (superior autobiographical memory), which means that her memory cannot forget anything in her life.
Clive Wearing suffers from a severe kind of amnesia (anterograde amnesia), which causes him to forget everything that happened in his life more than 30 seconds ago.
