SWEET LITTLE RACIST LANDSCAPE SUITE-tim davis
A photo series found in PUBLISH THE UNPUBLISHABLE
Demonstrates what is considered to be "unpublishable"

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A scanned receipt found in PUBLISH THE UNPUBLISHABLE
Demonstrates what is considered to be "unpublishable"

Therefore to 'unpublish' can can only happen online as once something is in print it can't be retracted this also can be seen as a an advantage or as a limitation depending on how you look at it.

Can also mean to make something generally known

For now I'm most interested in the question of trash or treasure. In a sense I want to test the limits and see what is considered trash and why it would be labeled this way. This research could maybe help me find out what the system of this is. I would have to narrow it down perhaps. I also like the way ubu web created this archive of works that are considered unpublishable and collected it by letting artists ponder the question of what is unpublishable and then sending their work in. Giving it a platform, a very basic one. Maybe I could think of a method along these lines and give a stage to unpublishable works. I am also noticing how unpublishable relates to quality, how formed something is and if the content has gotten approval. These limitations can also urge people to want to share their work, and go against standards that are put in place. These standards can be there for ethical reasons or for more traditional reasons. Evaluation of the motive to halt publishing can also be important to look into.
I still, as you can read, have a lot of questions and I would have to narrow these things down to find out what I would research further...

After this week I have followed the workshops to broaden my horizon on the topics of hybrid and urgency. So far I want to expand on the aspect of what can be published from the angle of what is treasure and what is trash. Then perhaps looking at reasons within a regime why certain things can't be published and what the limitations put in place. The trash or treasure idea can also underline what is urgent/whats not urgent, who decides whats urgent and for who is it urgent.

I would be interested in looking into archiving more and different systems in which informations is arranged and what the goal and incentive behind them is.
I will add some inspiring archives bellow.

I started my collection in my room at my parents as I already have quite a large collection of all sorts (hoarder alert) of materials books and my own creations that never seen the light of day and I started to contemplate why... too ugly? too weird? these are interesting questions to also project to other works and why or why not they should be published.
Next I will start to branch out of my own realm of items and maybe start asking concrete questions to others like is this trash or treasure to you and why or idk I need to think it through more :/
Can something that is outdated still be republished? how will it look in a more contemporary form?

At first it was daunting to already have chosen an outlet for my topic but I realized that all of my research was pointing to creating an archive. So I choose for an archive in the end. As of right now I am still gathering sources concerning unfinished work and material that we leave behind that could still hold value.
A collection will have to be made at some point and where or whom it will come from is still something I have to I have to think about. It will have to be work that I can categorize eventually for my archive.

"TO FINISH A WORK IS TO KILL IT" -PICASSO

It is interesting to see how much hidden value there is in the process of creative works, it shows a narrative, a technique and the work can be considered a living breathing thing that gets fed every time it is worked on.

In the case of the MET exhibition it's a rather physical archive asking the question of what constitutes unfinished work and the difference between a work that is unfinished by the artist and work that is perceived by others as unfinished.

It is unusual in any other context to experience works of art in such a broad range that are unfinished in the same space. And the story behind them is revealed

Based on Megan's exercise I tried to find keywords based on a collection I made on famous unfinished work to also get a more unbiased view and to also explore if there were any parallels to the collection of my own. I then made these keywords into categories and started to index them/archive them.