Dane Mitchell

Originally from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, Dane Mitchell’s practice might be most accurately described as a conceptually-lead investigation shaped by an interest in things that contain, such as museums, encyclopaedias, language and material enclosures and that which cannot be contained, such as vapours, forces, transmissions, eradications, breath and contagions. Currently he is working on a sprawling project The Museum of Without which proposes a museum without objects, artefacts  and artworks; a museum of proxies and gaps—an unhinged museum of absent-hood, held together by its hermeneutical framing practices alone, displaying the techniques of enclosure and scaffolds of knowledge containment. The Museum of Without actively asks: what might a museum without artefacts be? What might a collection of losses hold and what might hold it?