The Partial Index
2014, BALTIC 39, Newcastle. Peter Merrington and Tijana Stevanović, with Sophie Yarker, Elodie Roy and Ko-Le Chen
The exhibition The Partial Index explored the relationship between the organisation of personal memories and professional records. A group of artists and researchers came together to build an installation, drawn from a collection of audio recordings, stock images, found objects, film, video, photography, collage and writing. In addition to the exhibition, the group produced a film and publication:
Just Bananas Growing: An Index
2014, HD video, 5 minutes. Peter Merrington, Tijana Stevanović, Sophie Yarker, Elodie Roy and Ko-Le Chen
2014, HD video, 5 minutes. Peter Merrington, Tijana Stevanović, Sophie Yarker, Elodie Roy and Ko-Le Chen
Just Bananas Growing is an index for an essay that was never written. It was assembled from a series of conversations about memory, place and the archive in response to architectural and social change in the Byker ward of Newcastle, UK during the 20th century.
A Partial Index
Publication, edited by: Peter Merrington & Tijana Stevanović. Kindly supported by Newcastle University Post-Graduate Innovation Fund, BALTIC 39, the school of Architecture, Planning & Landscape, Newcastle University and NewBridge Books. ISBN 978-1-908452-63-4
Publication, edited by: Peter Merrington & Tijana Stevanović. Kindly supported by Newcastle University Post-Graduate Innovation Fund, BALTIC 39, the school of Architecture, Planning & Landscape, Newcastle University and NewBridge Books. ISBN 978-1-908452-63-4
A Partial Index documents a two-year project led by Stevanović and Merrington, exploring the processes and ideas of indexing, curating and public engagement within a post-graduate research environment. In order to avoid making a dictionary that would describe only one possible category of subject, A Partial Index offers a space for playful re-imagining, questioning the existing and introducing new terms that have formed the quotidian practice of students in higher education today.