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The 'end of the line'
exhibition at Platform (a gallery in London's East End) May 21st
- May 31st was the last stage of these things' elongated journey
towards the landfill. A journey which began when they were nominated
as being not worth keeping.
In one sense the intervening
year was a suspended moment between the nominee's decision to
divest themselves of these things and that great bin at the end
of the line....
On the 21st May the
Millennium Collection was placed in a sealed skip situated outside
the gallery in Wilkes Street, London E1. The skip was monitored
by CCTV round the clock and we were present each day to continue
the conversations around the nominations with all who cared to
stop by. Conversational interaction was a major part of this experience
for us and sometimes we've heard people retelling stories from
nominations, or describing things, to others in a form of chinese
whispers, passing on the message.
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