philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA
Penn Design
Critic: Andrew SAUNDERS
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Paul Germaine MCCOY: Access by definition is a means of approaching or entering a place. To today’s visitor, it is a means of being in a presence of artifacts that sit in a decontextualized archive within the Penn Museum.
- Paul Germaine MCCOY, “Accessing Artifacts. “, Model Photo
- Paul Germaine MCCOY, “Accessing Artifacts. “, Model Photo
- Paul Germaine MCCOY, “Accessing Artifacts. “, Elevation
- Paul Germaine MCCOY, “Accessing Artifacts. “, Section
- Paul Germaine MCCOY, “Accessing Artifacts. “, Site Plan
- Paul Germaine MCCOY, “Accessing Artifacts. “, Plan
Despite this physical removal, the anthropology of the artifacts is embedded in the materials that describe their geometry; every surface telling a story about their origins, every edge and crack reminding us of the journey that has brought it to this precious and fragile state. If these artifacts hold such importance to our culture, then the new archive should demand that our culture contemplates the privilege of accessing them in a special, restricted, and controlled space deep within the museum.
February 20th, 2019 at 4:50 pm
This is fabulous. Damn good.
March 19th, 2019 at 4:11 am
Did you leave a comment on your own project lol?