Artifact Artifice: The Repository from a chicago home birth Watch Video
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Description: The Repository describes the feat of a taxonomy of artifacts represented by illustrations from books pertaining to Native American Cultures (recently withdrawn from the Chicago Public Library System) as they are hoarded, fetishized, and incorporated into the home where they give birth to modern kitsch objects. These two taxonomies—artifact and kitsch—are conflated; both take on value separate from their function. Ultimately both taxonomies become portals into a realm where objects imbue thei
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