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Valmont Layne - Seagull
THESOUNDARCHIVESATTHEDISTRICTSIXMUSEUM:A WORKINPROGRESSV almont LayneSouth Africa is an anomaly among developing countries. It is botha developed country with good infrastructure and also a country withhuge social and economic problems. There is a wide gulf betweenrecipients of development aid on the one hand and skilled profes-sionals on the other. In this assumption lie both the challenges andopportunities for audiovisual preservation. In itemizing the issues,challenges, hurdles and obstacles, my chosen keywords are institu-tional growth, consciousness and expertise. The District Six Museum developed almost without evidentdesign since its conception at a conference in 1988. Yet the soundarchives, a new project conceived in 1997, had the luxury of beingmodelled on ethnographic and public sound archives in the USA andelsewhere.
186 Archives for the Future of visual cons t r u c tion . . . [and most importantly] it contains the present-day cues and reconstructions of everyday remem-brance.1 The exhibition attempts to find an ‘interpretative vehicle’ appro-
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