chapter 20
Lists, Mental Collections and Deaccessioning
Lists ★ Mental Collections ★ Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda ★ Shouldn’a Deaccessioned ★ Upgrading and Deaccessioning ★ The Praxis of Collecting
Sign in the Venetian casino, 2005. Cast bronze, and printed plastic, 2005. 18" high. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Lists, Mental Collections and Deaccessioning muses upon immaterial collections and collections that take up little space (ex: menu errors, invented names, elided words, sign misspellings, locale displacements, New York City fossils, inscriptions in cement). This chapter also considers the extremes of collecting (ex: the Collyer brothers and Andy Warhol), upgrading and selling, trading, giving what no longer matters and the practice as distinguished from the theory of collecting.
