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Experiments with cartography and infinity
The world is full of things: Boston, marmalade, February, the neighbors, tomorrow, zoology, Penn State, theater.
Before things form in the world, there is the pre-thing, the formless, the space of intuition, the richness of vagueness (the joy of the unspecified), the virtual, the potential. In this infinite space, there is an overfullness of possibility for which other worlds might soon come into being.
So many worlds are in fact (concretely) possible that we need maps and guides, compasses and cartography.
I develop websites, maps, guidebooks and performative frameworks that destabilize things (communities, sites, objects) and re-gather them in new locations and configurations. The goal of my projects is always to experiment with new ways of traveling with the world, creating the world at same time that we, collaboratively, traverse it.
It's possible then that a new world would be one in which funerals are performed for moments that have passed away or one in which infinitely small things are of utmost consideration.
The important thing is simply that we ask research questions experimentally and collaboratively. The artist acts as everything but master: facilitator, producer, worker, participant, collector, engineer, archivist. There are no viewers, only participants.
This video was produced by Michael Hall
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kanarinka (their other films)
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| Country: USA |
Copyright Year: 2004 |
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Aspect Magazine
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Audio commentary by Natalie Loveless:
Natalie Loveless is an artist, theorist, and writer. Loveless' recent interactive installation and performance pieces examine the frameworks of representational practice, language, political mobility, and institutional critique. Her research interests include philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, and visual culture.
Loveless received an MFA in interdisciplinary studio art in 2004 from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and an MA in Art History in 2004 from Tufts University. She has exhibited, presented, and performed across North America, Europe, and Asia. Exhibitions include: Participatory Democracy at Boston's Art Interactive (2004), from the idiom series at the Artists Foundation, Boston, MA (2004), and info@blah at the Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts (2003); Performances include: Chashama?s international performance festival in New York City (2004), the 7a*11d international performance festival in Toronto, Canada (2004), and the 11th Congress for Performance Art in Berlin (2004); Presentations include the Performance Studies international conference in Singapore (2004), Approaching the Unapproachable at Brown University (2004), and Figuring Corporeality at Queens University, (2003). She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she is writing a dissertation on death and representational practice.
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