Museify

There was an exhibit, the title was ‘Everything that I stole from you’, and the artist was exhibiting stolen objects, and he stated where they were stolen, from whom, etc.; it was an exhibit of theft. So obviously it was museified. It was a ready-made. Rather than a bottle-rack, it was theft that was on display, as social action. And so something that was alive was museified . . . Today’s museum has no more boundaries, and we know that there are entire communities that have been anthropologically museified, as patrimony.

And third, it indicates humans’ increasing alienation from nature by criticizing their attempts to museify it.

Hersonski’s film resists museifying the film as historical object and therefore avoids assuming any truth value about the past from its content.