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Jasper Rigole’s Quixotic Art Experiments with Home Movies and Archival Practices: The International Institute for the Conservation, Archiving, and Distribution of Other People’s Memories (IICADOM)
2012
Overview
Belgian artist Jasper Rigole is the founder and conservator of the fictitious \"International Institute for the Conservation, Archiving, and Distribution of Other People's Memories\" (IICADOM, 2004). This ongoing multimedia project is an original and lively collection of linear films and multimedia art projects created out of found films, photographs, and documents the artist has gathered over the years. As an ongoing artistic project, it is in itself a constantly growing virtual archive for the images Rigole has recycled, a fraction of the huge analog film archive Rigole has built from anonymous 8mm images he has collected at auctions, in secondhand stores, and at flea markets. He uses these found home movies to make imaginary films that situate these images from the past in a contemporary context and aesthetic, combining elements from both literary and referential genres. His style can best be described as a filmic form of experimental life-writing that calls to mind the work of Jorge Luis Borges and Georges Perec, two important sources of inspiration for Rigole. Building on Patricia Zimmermann's ideas, Cammaer aims to illustrate how Rigole creates a \"new fictional alchemy\" for the home movies in his collection, \"mobilizing history as something particular, local, specific\" and yet, at the same time, embracing the universal quality of home movies by \"transforming them into public memory.\" Rigole assembles other people's home movies, creating a surrealist filmic world for them that is as universal as it is particular. With his distinct compilation style, Rigole has found an imaginative way to interrogate the way archives work, to explore the complex dialogue between memory and history, and to study the language of home movies in particular.
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University of Minnesota Press
