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D.A. #010 - A.D. 2020

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1.	A.D. 2020 - SP#035 \| variation I 06:49	buy track
2.	A.D. 2020 - SP#036 \| variation II 09:40	buy track
3.	A.D. 2020 - SP#037 \| variation III 06:16	buy track

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On 23/09/19 at about 12 (CEST) a cardboard box was found at the front door of our studio. The only information on the box (handwriting all caps) was a small code (A.D. 2020) and the cryptic warning "KEEP AWAY FROM MAGNETIC FIELDS". As we opened the box a smell of old attic spread like if the content was sealed in there since forever. Inside the box we found 12 dusty folders, each including a variable number of magnetic tape spools and disparate items (paper material, prints, photographs, VHS tapes...). The puzzling findings unfold a high degree of space-time discrepancy, with dates, locations and names that don't add up, certainly leaving the awareness of being faced with a very strange puzzle, way too elaborate to be a joke, too full of meanings to be a fake. Unable to tell what it was, we decided to start an archive to catalog and publish the content of the box, one folder at the time. We called it: Dust Archive.

What follows is the content of the tenth folder
Dust Archive protocol code: D.A. #010 - A.D. 2020

∙ [SP#035] to [SP#037] spools of tape
∙ [IT#021] black and white abstract print
∙ [IT#022] black and white picture of a desk apparently showing a step of the procedure mentioned in the following item
∙ [IT#023] piece of paper, typed, meticulously describing the following process:

"Found a low density polyvinyl chloride box with some mysterious bas-relif images on the top cover.

Content of the box:

- 21 small fragments of magnetic tape, all different in length
- 2 rolls of adhesive tape, 1/4” thick, one blue, one white
- 1 rusty cutter
- 4 printed pages containing instructions for the assembly (with numbered lists, images..)

Instruction pages are worn out by time, almost unreadable. First page says

“ […] study on internal forms of a given form […] considering a drawing formed by vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines, some are to be deleted to find how many variations are contained within the main drawing […] see Sol LeWitt (1974) […] record the output to discover message […]”

Instructions show which tape combine in groups of 10, 14, 16, and how to assembly them to obtain the maximum amount of variations without losing the main message.

After storing the first three variations the oxide material of the remaining tape fragments dissolved, becoming dust, so all I have is these three messages, an incomplete work about completeness.

Creative process:

phase 1 (future | time capsule) – read the instructions
phase 2 (present | assembly) – record the file
phase 3 (past | failure) – unable to reconstruct the original form"

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released December 14, 2020

D.A. #010 - A.D. 2020

Aural findings curatorship:
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Restoration and level matching: BIAS
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Visual items curatorship: Vita Tae Zorat

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