ABSTRACT
This chapter explores examples of two forms of participatory culture of the Sydney Opera House: visiting and capturing. Visiting is explored in more depth through an analysis of the characteristics of souvenirs, not simply as representations but as performative artefacts that become repositories of memories, while capturing is explored through an observation of two groups on Flickr identified through the inclusion or exclusion of photographs of the Sydney Opera House. Through visiting and capturing the relationship between participatory cultures centred on taking photographs or acquiring souvenirs can be connected with van Dijck's second vertical axis of time. The photographs mediate the present experience in order to access it later, while the souvenirs can alter the present experience through their scalar operations. Inevitably, time becomes central to the motivation of these practices.
