ABSTRACT
'Moments" approach to a slow transformation of the displayed artworks promoted a dynamic understanding of the artwork that is often lost in more static, precious, preservationist modes of exhibition. The paradox of the 'holding place' that was the 'Moments' exhibition, like the paradox of performance itself, is that it was both old and new, double and singular, a formation and a transformation, a conformation and a departure, an echoing and a propagation. As workshop archive 'Moments' staged 'technique of repetition' that were willfully multiple, flighty and provisional, turning this archive self-consciously towards its outsides. The particular re-formation was one that designated and re-assembled the museum as an archival workshop or workshop archive. The thoughts emerge from an experience situated within the exhibition 'Moments. Many of the contributing 'pioneer' artists were present at occasions of creative response throughout the exhibition and this relation further complicated and enriched its heteronomous nature.
