ABSTRACT This article takes the form of a speculative reading of a selection of objects and cardboard boxes from Andy Warhol’s monumental artwork, Time Capsules (1974–1984) based on research on the Time Capsules undertaken at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh in 2014. The Time Capsules consists of 612 containers (most of them identical cardboard boxes) filled with objects from Warhol’s life. In this article, I draw on comics studies, queer theory, and the theory of autographics to consider how and why the Time Capsules might be read as an artwork that stages an encounter with intimate interiors. These intimate interiors are multiple: spanning the materiality of the work itself, the enclosure of mementos, objects, and ephemera within the mundane autobiographical technology of the cardboard box, and the reader’s own interior world which they must draw on to find a path through the vast array of objects that make up the work. The reading offered in this article follows the trace of affect and intimate relationality – sexuality, familial relations, friendships and love – across the work. It argues that the Time Capsules powerfully demonstrate the role of objects in the construction, maintenance and memorialisation of intimate connections.

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隐含的翻箱倒柜：阅读安迪沃霍尔时间胶囊中的私密内饰

摘要 本文基于对 2014 年在匹兹堡安迪沃霍尔博物馆进行的时间胶囊的研究，对安迪沃霍尔的不朽艺术品 Time Capsules (1974–1984) 中的精选物品和纸板箱进行了推测性阅读。 Time Capsules 由 612 个容器（其中大部分是相同的纸板箱）组成，里面装满了沃霍尔生平的物品。在这篇文章中，我利用漫画研究、酷儿理论和自传理论来考虑如何以及为什么可以将时间胶囊解读为与亲密室内环境相遇的艺术品。这些私密的内部空间是多重的：跨越作品本身的物质性，在纸板箱的平凡自传技术中封装纪念品、物品和蜉蝣，以及读者自己的内部世界，他们必须利用这个世界才能在构成作品的大量对象中找到一条路径。本文提供的阅读内容遵循整个作品中情感和亲密关系的痕迹——性、家庭关系、友谊和爱情。它认为时间胶囊有力地展示了物体在构建、维护和纪念亲密关系中的作用。