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The Hardrive

Item date(s): (2022)

Megan Rumpelt
Joshua Alexander  - (collaborator)
Noa Hall  - (collaborator)
Masindi Mbolekwa  - (collaborator)
Olivia Pinter  - (collaborator)
Ntsako Nkuna  - (collaborator)
Rethabile Padi  - (collaborator)
Nhlahla Keele  - (collaborator)
Khulekani Magudulela  - (collaborator)


Medium: Paper-covered Masonite box
Pages: unpaged (46pp)
Size: 344mm
Binding: Masonite flip-top box. Punched double-ring punched holes
Technique: Collages created using photocopies of various library books and found materials
Edition: One of 15 copies


Place publication: Johannesburg, RSA
Publisher: T-Together Collective and Wits University

Additional notes:
1. Title page

2. Information to users.

[divider] 3. A Hope in Hell (on back Paradise) [10 double sided pp]

[divider] 4. (asemic) [7 double sided pp]

[divider] 5. Vida Caffe [7 double sided pp]

Get Your Tickets: an envelope containing altered receipts, taped to the back of a page.

[divider] The Teachings [7 double sided pp]

[divider] Likkle Did You Know [8 double sided pp]

[divider] Stitching the Wound [7 double sided pp]

Some folded pages.

Reference note:
1. The mylar dividers are relevant in our curation of the work and they seem correctly placed in your record as far as I can understand.

2. The rings are supposed to be able to come loose. We organised the work in our best sense of how we read the work, but we wanted it to feel like a repository that can be added to and taken from and so the work can be shuffled as it is used. If you would like to revert it to its original sequencing, I can sit down with my book and make a page order for you.

3. I will try and compile everyone's signatures, but it might take me a little while.

4. Publisher: this is based on the fact that the costs were shared by us and the university.

5. Printed on the risograph printer with photocopy printed A3 inserts, bound together in a handbuilt masonite box with removable rings. The box itself is covered in papier mache of risograph prints of the masonite it is built from.

6. The language of this publication is foremost collage because as such a large collective, we found that we communicated best over a table of cut up photocopies, passing assemblages back and forth as we spoke and thought together.

This publication was created as a way of examining what information is. Is information fact when it is printed? Can nonsense be information? How do we document experiential knowledge? framed as a hard-drive, the collective could bring their own information tot the publication in different folders and interact with each other's work. Bound in the box, with removable rings, anyone in possession of the HARDRIVE can theoretically add or take their own information. The work was filed as was seen fit.

Exhibition notes:
"Untitled" is a conceptual puzzle presented in a structured and intricate language. The work engages with asemic writing, utilizing its enigmatic qualities to explore the interplay between visual symbols and meaningful script. Through carefully structured language, the book seeks to convey its own baffling meaning, inviting viewers to decipher and engage with the language it explains.

Ref: GB/31129







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