The Nine Collections of the Seventh Museum | Georgina Starr | 1994

Interactive CD-ROM, touchscreen computer , 214 C-prints, color photograph, Offset lithograph on paper (180cm x 125cm), video (The Making of Junior [+ Entertaining Junior] 20 mins) 1994

In 1994 Georgina Starr was commissioned to make a new artwork for the city of Den Haag. Having spent two weeks feeling lonely and depressed in a small hotel in the city she eventually turned her room into an elaborate museum: 'The Nine Collections'. Inspired by the kunstkamer paintings of Flemish Baroque painter Willem Van Haecht (Apelles Painting Campaspe) seen in the Mauritshuis, Starr began recording everything she had made, found and collected during her stay, making complex personal, historical and fictional links between the pieces to form the nine destinct catagories. The 'Collection' includes The Costume Collection, The 7 Sorrows Collection, The Lahey Collection and The Junior Collection which relates to her alter ego 'Junior' a doll she made in the hotel room to combat loneliness. Starr transferred images of the 214 pieces onto the computer to create the final work—an Interactive Touchscreen CD Rom. The CD Rom allows the viewer to tour the collection via image, text, video and sound. The work is accompanied by a detailed room plan and 20 page exhibition guide book*