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This paper examines the endeavour to identify fundamental characteristics of all documentary work... more This paper examines the endeavour to identify fundamental characteristics of all documentary work regardless of the form it takes. Each chapter of this paper describes a different step in the evolution of research project to documentary installation work and is chronologically organized to reflect this process. This paper not only sets forth fundamental requirements of a documentary work as supported by various scholarship on a multitude of documentary forms, but also outlines the process of translating the fundamental requirements and relative supporting scholarship into a physical documentary installation work.
This paper examines the endeavour to identify fundamental characteristics of all documentary work... more This paper examines the endeavour to identify fundamental characteristics of all documentary work regardless of the form it takes. Each chapter of this paper describes a different step in the evolution of research project to documentary installation work and is chronologically organized to reflect this process. This paper not only sets forth fundamental requirements of a documentary work as supported by various scholarship on a multitude of documentary forms, but also outlines the process of translating the fundamental requirements and relative supporting scholarship into a physical documentary installation work.