In Stop-Motion Migration , movement in the city is mapped by systematically sampling an incomplete archive of what happened, where and when.These phenomena are translated and represented through a set of lists and diagrams.The list of names and addresses forms a text, while the diagram creates a series of visual relationships and pure movements unburdened by names and annotations. Collapsed on the same plane as the diagram, the list is simultaneously a terrain and a directory. It is a way to partially interpret and understand the diagram and, by extension, the city. Similar to the pairing of map and tour, where a tour functions as a participatory three-dimensional realisation of the two-dimensional notation of the map, this project pairs diagram with list.While each list and diagram is static, the series of composite images (each representing a year from 1985 to the present) are active and unfold in time and space from drawing to drawing. Like the delicate increments of individual response that needed to be reinscribed on that certain cataclysmic night for Hickey, 4 I propose the idea of rethinking space as something incremental. The relatively small peripatetic experience in the gallery is a tiny analogue for a larger movement that took place in a past time and in a past city that is different yet similar to this one now. The slow movement of galleries from space to space, across and through the city, is suspended in each frame, by each diagram that forms a distinct constellation. Every dot represents a moment of permanence, a period of time, while every vector signals the migration of a gallery from one space to another. The diagram optimises each move by taking the shortest distance possible across the city without regard to the physical things or temporal occurrences – traffic jams or meandering walks – that may have stood in its way. Together, the diagram and list collapse the three-dimensionality of space onto a two-dimensional surface to make a single record of what happened before.
Stop-Motion Migration No.3 (1995), 2010. 22 x 17” digital print on paper
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4 Dave Hickey.‘The Delicacy of Rock-and-Roll’ Air Guitar . Los Angeles: Art issues Press, 1997. p98
Stop-Motion Migration No.4 (2000), 2010. 22 x 17” digital print on paper
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