I am interested in exploring the significance of ‘tracking’, or documenting the Everyday; what it means to be selective within the Everyday; criteria for selection. Developing a useful and comprehensive system by which I can track and link mood and productivity- productivity being what I consider the most important element to my life and my driving force.
I am curious about whether or not it is in fact possible to document and archive the Everyday, using my own ‘Everyday’ life as a frame for this; creating my own idiosyncratic map of my life which will serve as a model by which to judge my behaviour. Guideline, key, rules. Creating rules.
There will be a piece of writing accompanying an artefact. The artefact serves as this set of rules, this template by which I can judge my actions and the significance of certain behaviours/patterns. The piece of writing to accompany this will be an exploration of the efficiency of this, how my study fits into Everyday Life Theory. Whether by being so selective and choosing only to document a small number of occurrences within my Everyday, if I am taking away the ‘Everyday-ness’ of my life, and whether this artefact is in fact valid as a genuine representation of life. Can any archive constructed using some form of taxonomy ever be genuine?
Annette Messager created books/albums as a way of controlling a persona, maintaining an element of her life (however imagined). In my own way I am doing this with my artefact. Controlling, ‘keeping track of’, setting guidelines by which this person should live; Eat less jam, Lunch at 12, vacuum more often, fit into the scale... Chart your existence.
Sophie Calle in her work, specifically The Hotel, being very particular about the information she did and didn’t want to take in; Uninterested in actual inhabitants of rooms, only in their belongings and making assumptions of them based on the ‘evidence’ she finds. Not interested in having her assumptions confirmed, only in making them... Exploring the Everyday-est elements of the people whose rooms she cleaned, the traces they left behind.
1. Why am I doing this?
2. Is it working?
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