The making of meaning – or the telling of a story – in visual art practice of-ten involves an elaborate performance of the space between multiple sites, such as the viewer, the image/object, and the maker. Likewise a conventional understanding of collaborative practice is one in which a relationship between multiple sites of agency is performed within agreed upon boundaries, whether they be contextual, conceptual or material. This performative and collaborative space becomes interestingly

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... matic when one site is much less active than the other – when one is in fact dead. With this, the relationship between now and then becomes relevant to the discussion, as the making of meaning becomes a collaborative practice of memory.