My Senior art show art Oberlin was called the Nomad Rhizome, and consists in a series of ideological and physical decentralizations, carts or statues, musical instruments, puppets, and performances meandering from place to place around the campus and town.
A new section on the main site will be the hub for processing the maps and date that come from the show. Click Here for that. Please do make maps and leave comments about you encounters or lack of encounters (absence and presence etc etc) with the Locomotive Meanderers.
Fundamentally, I’m interested in Ways Of Looking, in considering meaning as a cork board, from which items can be both taken and appended. There is of course by nature no central thesis for the show, but some in terms of a sounding board, I’m more than happy to offer a list of concepts:
Creation as Comparison, Anarcho-Primitivism (w/ the technology problem), Linguistics, Metaphysicalisation of the Physical, Race and the Yonic, Stations of the Cross, The Nomadic Imperative, Genesis out of the Discarded, Translation/Interpretation, Combination of Genre/Synaesthesia/Interdisciplinary Sonics as metaphorical thought, Physical and Ideological Mapping, The Derivative, Nihilist [non]Narratives, Valorization of Difference and Normativity, Discursive Otherness: Exotic, Shock Value, Attention Prostitution, Machines that Deconstruct (or De-Story?) Themselves, Return/Advance to Small Gods, Permissivity of the Performative Space, Taming the Vicious to Sooth, An Afterlife of Now, Automatic Contexts and De-Contextuals, Inherent Indispensable Contradiction…
More will, I’m sure, be coming. Whether you were “present” or “absent” for the events of the past week, I would be honored to join any kind of map you might make into the dynamic project of synthesizing an ongoing face for this project. Email, Snails, Telephone, Comment Here, whatever works.
Here is the original Artist Statement and Map: :The Nomad Rhizome