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Lamentations, A Social Observatory

Part 1 Project 2017
Paolo Kirsten
Gemma Annear
University of Pretoria | South Africa
Built within the Heldeakker or ‘Heroes Acre’ of the Old Church Street Cemetery, Pretoria, an infrastructure surrounding an enigmatic machine produces and archives the objectively and uncompromisingly true life story of each and every soul in the city. Beneath the graves lie the massive vaults, at first a seemingly endless archive, then a near forgotten ruin.

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