MEDIA DIGITAL ART AND CULTURE IN FLANDERS BELGIUM - BAM

J A S P E R R I G O L E
º 1 9 8 0, B R U G G E
E mascarpony@
hotmail.com
W jasperrigole.com
W IICADOM.org
Since 2005, Jasper Rigole has been working on
the multi-media project The International Institute
for the Conservation, Archiving and Distribution of
Other People’s Memories (IICADOM). This fictitious
institute takes its departure from an archive of found
films, photographs and documents which the artist
gathered over the years. It is an ever-growing collection of found ego-documents,
– which he sourced from flea markets, second-hand shops and garage sales –
including amateur films, travelogues and family documents. All materials fulfill
the same criterium, namely that they have lost the personal and emotional value
they once had and, in that sense, have become worthless. By redistributing these
orphaned memories through film screenings, exhibitions and online projects,
Rigole seeks to re-establish the lost emotional value of these once so personal
memories. His main goal is to reflect on the closely related subjects of archive and
memory. By using an encyclopedic approach and a quasi-scientific precision and
by referencing documentaries, ‘fact-fiction’ and popular scientific equivalents he
further investigates concepts such as authenticity and objectivity. This results in
an examination of both the human need for conclusive stories and the question
whether anecdotes fictionalise history. IICADOM brings archival footage together
via the techniques of cut & paste, compilation, collage and appropriation.
6 8
An Elementary
Taxonomy of
Collected Memory
(2008)
Mixed media,
525 fi 300 cm
© Virginie Schreyen