Archive of Vibrant Matter

Basic Data

Description: Michael Swaine and Amy Franceschini, two of the founders of Futurefarmers, USA, enacted the project ERRATUM in 2010 in San Francisco, California as a “reverse ready-made”, a commentary on our wasteful waste systems (toilets flush useful water and nitrogen into the sewage system). The deconstruction resulted in new porcelain shard and dust bricks which were accompanied by letter-pressed books with a text by Renny Pritikin. Society’s errata can be erased if we turn towards “new ideas, self-reliance and regeneration”.
Credit: Futurefarmers: Amy Franceschini, Michael Swaine
Submitted by: Alastair Fuad-luke
Typology: Transforming Practice
Origin, Location and Movement?: Immigrant (arriving in a location from another; imported)
Item Relation: Several Things
State of abundance: Common
Date of creation: 2010-01-01

Socio-cultural Data

Present Uses

Michael Swaine and Amy Franceschini, two of the founders of Futurefarmers, USA, enacted the project ERRATUM in 2010 in San Francisco, California as a “reverse ready-made”, a commentary on our wasteful waste systems (toilets flush useful water and nitrogen into the sewage system). The deconstruction resulted in new porcelain shard and dust bricks which were accompanied by letter-pressed books with a text by Renny Pritikin. Society’s errata can be erased if we turn towards “new ideas, self-reliance and regeneration”.

Technical Data

Class of Material

Ceramics, Glasses

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Erratum

Transforming Practice, Several Things, Common, Ceramics, Glasses, Decades

Socio-cultural Data

Present Uses

Technical Data

Class of Material

Bio-temporal-geographical Data

Residence time (How long does the matter/material/artefact stay in an unaltered state in the location/context/system before it decay?)

How does the item affect the environment in which it exists?

Ontological-cosmological Data

quotidian