Fictive Continuities

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FICTIVE CONTINUITIES

JOHANNES SVERLANDER I KRISTINA BARNISKYTE

I MATILDA MÃ…NSDOTTER I OLGA KUCHMA


“Appropriation is a common political strategy for asserting “fictive continuities” (Flood, Chapter 6) that may be lateral – within or between cultures – or vertical, between the present and cultures or values of the past.” Kinney, Dale Reuse value (2012). p.8

(…) “technical reproduction can put the copy of the original into situations which would be out of reach for the original itself.”

Benjamin, Walter The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction p.218-219



Apprentice Experimental Controversial Intuitive Fabricates the missing parts

Archeologist Order Traditional Knowledge Collects digital spolia


Corinthian capital by florin berechet



Stretched twisted silhouette Neo classicism? Investigating density, surfaces and creating mass from lines Copying sections of the old spolia


Caged spolia Resting on lamp post base Asymmetrical Two types of thread, different materiality


4 cores unified Interprets a Gothic Arch Mass and strength


Unfinished Arch-capital to ground Zig zagging sections to give proportion


Oversized The inside / outside of the capital


T-column broken down to three lines Is it growing? Will it be �finished� or always remain broken?


What is a pillar? Intertwined connections, where does it end? Dna and electricity? High-tech / low-tech


The copied figures The column as monument? Authenticity?










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