Assembled by Steven Watson and Carol Huebner Venezia, Artifacts is a collection of pieces designed uniquely for this project.
Its "pages" are made from everything from glass, copper, clay, rope, felt, and film to lycra, neoprene, polyester, mylar, vinyl, stucco, and glitter.
Most recently, Artifacts was exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2021,[2] and at the Centre Pompidou in 2022 accompanied by a talk by Watson.
[3] In 1979, Watson and Huebner Venezia sent 200 letters to active visual artists, writers, and musicians, inviting them to take part in a collaborative project.
In an interview for Widewalls Magazine, Watson expressed that he was "amazed" that he, Huebner Venezia, and the participating artists "could produce such a huge collaborative project organized without grants or gallery sponsorship or professionals in the art world."