Museum Soundings — a museum within museums

Entry: Sounding 005b
Record: Surfacing the Deeply Felt Everyday (005 · six parts)
Part: b of six
Type: Video
Duration: 03:29
Provenance: Activity Snapshot Module ASM-11150 · b
Status: Live

This archive is the Museum’s Activity Snapshot Module — a time-tracking database — repurposed. Each entry is a Sounding: an official field turned to hold what the record was built to leave out.

Weights

Sounding 005b · video · Surfacing the Deeply Felt Everyday

The small weights that hold a work still while it is tended. The felt heft of patience, the quiet labour the record was never built to count.

This record, in six parts: a · b · c · d · e · f

Part of Surfacing the Deeply Felt Everyday, record 005 in Museum Soundings, the counter-archive to “Snap, Hiss, Crackle, Pop: Counter-factual Conservation as Attentional Practice”. Recorded May–June 2020.