VESTIGES Project artists’ musings upon the vestigial landscape and culture of New Orleans began long before Katrina. Artist Jan Gilbert, a VESTIGES Project cofounder and curator of both its CAC residency and NCCROW installation, describes the Archive as "a ‘portal’ into the artist’s methodology, presenting representative work of artists who merge their lives with their artmaking rituals and tools, to ruminate, to dig, to recognize, to collect, to re-collect, to highlight, to honor. Here are idiosyncratic, playful, yet serious displays of obsessive observing and compulsive producing of offerings to the public domain. These artists, while displaying quite distinctive modes of practice, possess common veins of mining loss."

Documents of process and history, as well as possibilities for new artmaking, resource building and collaboration form the basis of this fluxus-like "living archive", which will include film screenings, dialogues, onsite archiving actions, and routings to offsite related events.