Errata - Brief Interruptions


In collaboration with the Futurefarmers
Carpenter Center for the Arts, Harvard University, 2017



As part of their exhibition Errata—Brief Interruptions, the Futurefarmers with Elaine Buckholtz and Floor van de Velde link two new artworks on Level 1 of the Carpenter Center through a series of enactments: "releasing the text from the pages of the errata found in the Robbins Library at Harvard University and awakening life in petrified objects."

Errata—Brief Interruptions presents new and existing works by artists Amy Franceschini and Michael Swaine, partners in the Futurefarmers art collective. The group shares a common interest in creating frameworks for, in their words, “catalyzing moments of uncertainty and confusion in productive and illuminating ways.” For this exhibition, Franceschini and Swaine envisioned the Carpenter Center as a launching point for investigations into the idea of an “error,” looking at errata sheets appended into library books, fingerprint traces made in the manufacture of sidewalk bricks, and a literal bug in Harvard’s early Mark II computer.