Over the course of five weeks in the spring of 2001, Mark Dion, along with photographer Bob Braine and nearly 90 volunteers, took to the shores, vacant lots, and farmland of New England. The result of these surveys is New England Digs, a multi-process exhibition that involved finding sites in Brockton, Providence, and New Bedford, collecting materials, cleaning them, and re-contextualizing the objects into a final exhibition.

Curated by Lasse Antonsen, Jo-Ann Conklin and Denise Markonish
image: Drawer of swizzle sticks and other materials excavated for New England Digs