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By the same metaphor, inactivity must be deathly — archives grow or die. Projecting a mortal lifecycle on to an archive is a coping mechanism. It helps us to cope with the fact that things and structures, including archives, can neither live or die.
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They just change in tow with patterns of attention and neglect. An archive is a structure that organises access to its holdings."/>
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<h1>Duree</h1>
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<div class="hassup">glassblower⁄</div>
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<a href="../../glassblower/nickthurston/index.html">Nick Thurston</a>
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<div class="content"><p>Actively growing is taken to be an archive’s sign of life.</p>
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<p>By the same metaphor, inactivity must be deathly — archives grow or die. Projecting a mortal lifecycle on to an archive is a coping mechanism. It helps us to cope with the fact that things and structures, including archives, can neither live or die.</p>
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<p>They just change in tow with patterns of attention and neglect.
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An archive is a structure that organises access to its holdings.
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Whether it is growing or not, it can still afford that access so long as its structures are at least
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maintained.</p>
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<p>So, UBUweb has stopped growing but it is all still there.
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Its duree is not that of mortality but of a time-based performance — a subjective cultural gesture.</p>
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<p>It was always a durational performance of gathering, organising and sharing; one that would last for as long as the act was sustainable and interesting.</p>
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<p>In turn, UBUweb, like all artworks, has a quasi-subject status.</p>
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<p>It bears characteristics — or their markers — that we associate with subjecthood.</p>
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<p>It invites or inclines us to attend to it on terms that reinforce subjectivity: its, ours, the archivist’s, and the authors archived.</p>
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<p>Like all ‘little databases’, UBUweb is flooded with subjectivity: tastes, identities, desires, capacities, and of course, limitations.</p>
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<p>So there it is. Subject-like. But perfectly capable of affording things we cannot do or even yet imagine. A mirror and a prism on to subjectivity.</p>
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