ABSTRACT
The whole process seemed an easy and continuous approach to archiving, an inevitable questioning of where documentation ends and the art begins, a pretty constant exchange or interplay between archives, documents, records and websites: material provided and provoked and appropriated and re-ordered. The acts of selection running through archival processes are inevitably political and the field of performance has very particular questions in relation to the politics of methodology and knowledge and its relation to ephemeral event. The shifting assortment of waste product sat amongst a further, less organised collection of evidence, condoms and needles, and the crumbling remains of derelict nineteenth century back to back terraces. In amongst all the stands the UK's only remaining Cementation Furnace, beneath which is written: by the process blister steel was manufactured and in the true Sheffield tradition nothing goes to waste.
