Naturalia & Artificialia Collection.
Urban Phantasmagoria Collection.
The Celebrity Collection.
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Welcome to the Museum of Ephemerata, where you have been
all along. And welcome to the impermanent collection, a world populated with miraculous traces, singular events, hypnogogica,
petrifications, and taxidermied beasts: a still life where only eddies of dust express movement.
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Surrounding the Kombucha Research Station, the impermanent collection embeds within its displays, its aesthetic, and its very representational methods a rough map of the histories of collecting.
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Our panoramic vision glides from saintly relics to Wunderkammern, and from public museums founded in the Enlightenment’s wake to mutant museums marketed for urban leisure — namely, dime museums, world’s fairs, and theme parks. Each of these historic forms of collection dealt the public a stacked deck, playing games with the tensions between truth and falsehood, nature and culture, life and death. The impermanent collection shuffles those
decks together.
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Visitors to the impermanent collection will tour five interwoven collections:
Naturalia & Artificialia
Urban Phantasmagoria
The Celebrity Collection
The Snowglobe Collection
...And an Entire Wing Dedicated to SLEEP!
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An allegory of loss, the impermanent collection demonstrates the most advanced methods for
the reproduction of absence, easily the most profound treatment to date concerning that ineffable
silhouette of modernity which measures out, in negative, the penetration and patrol of rationalization.
Like a smoke-enswirled detective, the impermanent collection powders the vanishing tracks
of that process known as disenchantment.
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