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Lamentations, A Social Observatory

Part 1 Project 2017
Paolo Kirsten
Gemma Annear
 University of Pretoria | South Africa
Built within the Heldeakker or ‘Heroes Acre’ of the Old Church Street Cemetery, Pretoria, an infrastructure surrounding an enigmatic machine produces and archives the objectively and uncompromisingly true life story of each and every soul in the city. Beneath the graves lie the massive vaults, at first a seemingly endless archive, then a near forgotten ruin.
Paolo Kirsten
Gemma Annear
Tutor(s)
Marguerite Pienaar
2017
The Civic Rattler
The Occupied Ruin
The Radically Permanent
Reception Clerestory – Quote attributed to: T. S. Eliot
Public Archive – Quote attributed to: T. S. Eliot
Domed Soundbox Workshop – Quote attributed to: Arundhati Roy
Soundbox Workshop within Ruin – Quote attributed to: J. R. R. Tolkien
New Public Archive – Quote attributed to: Arundhati Roy
New Reception – Quote attributed to: Ragnar Lothbrok
The Heldeakker
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