rANDOMeVENTS 2010 >>
carlotta rosa
collects and records chance instances captured in moments of time/space wandering, in the form of audio, video, photography, text, ephemera; in-between instances of everyday life; as in the
”derive” or “ technique of locomotion without a goal “ Debord 1956
working with the physical limitations of the situation/medium/technology, and the particular constraints of capturing information in a given situation, criteria emerge in relation to each instance, reminiscent of Brecht’s 1966 observations on conditions for producing compound chance events, impacting on the possibilities of where and when it is feasible to collect, record and process, and the materiality of the aesthetic outcome
instances are remediated to various modes of storage, processing and presentation; from the inventory to the online dataset, the gallery to the archive, the filing cabinet to the museum display case, the anthology to the index; they are assembled and re-assembled according to constructed menus/hybrid taxonomies of display: captured in a suspended time/space lag of data subjectivity, awaiting activation and later re-assimilation and re-play, in the form of assemblages, installation situations and re-constructions as though “something is both going to happen and has just happened” Deleuze & Guattari 1987
interpretations shift and alter, as instances are circulated, in new display formats, making apparent their workings and operations, and resonating theoretically, with what Pauls, 2007, describes as “The data container” which ... “consists of tables and structures that house discrete units that in themselves carry limited meaning but have the potential for multiple relational connections”
