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Elizabeth Price @ The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

18 March 2016 - 15 May 2016

A Restoration is a newly commissioned work in response to the collections and archives of the Ashmolean and Pitt Rivers museums.
The fifteen-minute, two-screen digital video installation employs the museums’ photographic and graphic archives. It is a fiction, set to melody and percussion, which is narrated by a ‘chorus’ of museum administrators who are organising the records of Arthur Evans’s excavation of the Cretan city of Knossos. The administrators use Evans’s extraordinary documents and photographs to figuratively reconstruct the Knossos Labyrinth within the museum’s computer server. They then imagine its involuted space as a virtual chamber through which museum objects digitally flow, clatter and cascade.
 

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Start:
18 March 2016
End:
15 May 2016
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Ashmolean Museum
Oxford, + Google Map