The And of Art IN at FOR new
The And of Art IN at FOR new*'s take on e-flux does not reproduce Triple Canopy's puritan critique of International Art English (opens in a new tab) or the retaliation which followed (opens in a new tab) on e-flux (opens in a new tab). It proposes a correlation of the Collection Collective (opens in a new tab)'s model of an art collection run by cultural producers with the e-flux model of an artist-run database of art writing. Whilst Collection Collective seeks to intervene into the circulation and consumption of material art production, e-flux is a major player in the information and discourse circulation of the art-world.
In an attempt to focus on language as material rather than as representation The And of Art IN at FOR new was composed with software tools designed for text manipulation and analysis. The long line of text follows the parameters of the physical space of tranzit(dot)sk in an attempt to articulate language both as material and as measuring device, thus linking the physical space of tranzit(dot)sk with the imagined space of e-flux.
* 8 most frequently used words in e-flux announcement titles
The line was composed in the following way:
- 38 keywords were extracted from the curatorial text.
- Those 38 keywords were used to query the entire corpus of the e-flux Journal.
- Each keyword appeared in numerous lines of text.
- Lines were sorted alphabetically, according to a word that precedes the keyword in a sentence.
- A random line of text for each letter of the alphabet was selected.
- Text adjacent to the keyword (from punctuation mark to punctuation mark) was extracted from each line.
- Selected strings of text were reordered according to the journal number in which they appear.
- Letter capitalisation was corrected according to punctuation rules and line-breaks were removed.
Details
technical info: installation/exhibition design, digital print on self-adhesive vinyl
dimensions: variable
exhibition views: Collection Collective: Template for a Future Model of Representation (opens in a new tab), tranzit.sk, Bratislava 2017
