From the dark basement of the Rietveld, the slides of the SKOR archive were brought to light! During a three-day event the many treasures of below shone in the public eye. The project Diascope by Claudine Arendt & Nicola Godman, took as its aim to surface and create publicity for what rests inside drawers, folders and boxes. On Wednesday 16 November, Diascope presented slides form the Volksgezondheid (health care) collection. Carried out in hospitals and care homes they are to be found in semi-open buildings. During the opening ceremony they were shown publicly and highlighted through projection, turning the pavilion into a light-box. On Thursday 17 November Diascope – Séparée followed the cataloguing done by SKOR. Strapping it to a tight schedule, 15 minutes per year, covering 18 years it linked the archival system to its accessibility.

SKOR | Foundation for Art and Public Domain realized works of art in public space from 1980 to 2012. After being shut down the Gerrit Rietveld Academie started housing its archive. Being composed of artist’s documentation, portfolios and bureaucracy, it found a shadowy existence in room S08 of the basement.

This exhibition was made possible by the Lectoraat Art & Public Space.