Living Archive
Roel Wouters
Roel Wouters collaborated with Luna Maurer to create ‘Living Archive’, an installation in a nature reserve in The Netherlands.
A camera records everything that moves within a specific marked area at the nature reserve by movement detection. The fragments generate a large archive of accidental video material, nature observations, animals passing the marked area as well as intentional material by people performing in front of the camera.
Nature and culture melt in the digital archive. On the website people can see all the recorded fragments and drag their favourites in the timeline on top. This collaborative and constantly changing film is simultaneously projected in the Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, for which the project was commissioned.
