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Erewash Archive (2008)
collaboration with Chie Hosaka
mixed media site-specific installation, Erewash Museum, Ilkeston

For the exhibition 'Future Past' at Erewash Museum in Ilkeson, Dichmont and Hosaka collaborated to create an installation playing with notions of local history and museum displays, constructing and arranging a misleading pseudo-historical exhibit in one of the museum's rooms.

Chronicling the life and times of "Ilkeston-born" eccentric Horace Jonathan Marney, the work comprised of the character's own inventions, his sketches, important relics from the private collections of "the Marney family estate and Erewash Borough Council", letters and drawings from his dream diary, as well as Dichmont and Hosaka's own "artistic interpretations" of some of Marney's dream imagery.

This work sought to blur boundaries between maker, curator, history and story and create a believable, yet unbelievable, local history exhibit to engage with the museum's visitors' curiosity and imagination.

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Detail from Hosaka and Dichmont's "artistic interpretation" of Marney's dreams; a kinetic sculpture.
Newspaper cuttings, cardboard box, tape recorder.


A cabinet of Marney-related curios and notes from his fire-damaged note books



















Letters from Horace Jonathan Marney, shown here "chronologically" according to the work's narrative


One of "Marney's experiments"; Gramophone, fishing wire, metal filament, various metal implements (forks, door handles, bolts and washers).
When the handle was turned, the spinning mechanism of the gramophone would send a fixed fork around with it,
crashing against other metal objects strung up within the gramophone's downturned horn, which was hung from the ceiling.