{"id":1416,"date":"2012-09-05T19:21:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T19:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skol.ca\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2020-10-28T13:46:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T13:46:13","slug":"the-unknown-artist-unit-1-territories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skol.ca\/en\/programming\/the-unknown-artist-unit-1-territories\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unknown Artist [Unit 1]: Territories"},"content":{"rendered":" <!--  -->\n\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview ngg-slideshow\"\n\t id=\"ngg-slideshow-ea4f15096569a793c2b3985da4d358e4-11535332040\"\n     data-gallery-id=\"ea4f15096569a793c2b3985da4d358e4\"\n     style=\"max-width: 540px; max-height: 300px;\">\n\n \t<div id=\"ngg-image-0\" class=\"ngg-gallery-slideshow-image\" style=\"height:300px\">\n\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/skol.ca\/wp-content\/gallery\/unknown-artist-unit-1\/MG_9623.jpg\"\n           title=\"\"\n           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figure yet to come along on an untrodden path. The exhibitions are a response to the call for proposals that invited artists to contribute works toward the corpus of an <em>UA<\/em> described as a resident of mobile spaces, a castaway on a floating island, a labourer of many faces last seen dispersing multiple forms in a slowly crystallizing topography.<\/p>\n<p>In the exhibitions selected in this programming, the <em>UA<\/em>&nbsp;assumes multiple guises and include a vast unpeopled architectural space, a signature without a corpus, a corpus without a known originator, a singular voice spoken by many tongues, a futurologist, an anonymous work collective, and a card-wielding miner extracting knowledge from the ground of the unknown. In focusing attention on the status of the individual artist and by the same token blurring and stretching the boundaries of this exclusive authorial reserve, these works and interventions question notions of subjectivity and territory, identities known and unknown, and emergence modalities explored and unexplored. The unknown variable is not only an integral component of the exhibitions but also an element at work in the programming\u2019s articulation and indeterminate nature. Since the form and content of the contributions remain either partially or entirely unknown, the <em>UA<\/em> will only emerge as a fully fleshed out figure at the conclusion of the programming.<\/p>\n<p>A process that can be described as reverse curating, for it is only after all is said and shown that the precise contours and extent of the exhibitions may be revisited and submitted to a critical structuring and assessment. This after the fact, inverted approach embraces and assumes the uncertainty inherent in the unknown in a gesture that parallels the artists\u2019 engagement and risk-taking. Nevertheless, though there may be no set point of arrival, the entry point is fixed and the contours of the territory to be traversed have been traced: the <em>Unknown Artist<\/em> is now free to strike \u201cposes\u201d on a continent born of bubbling up paths.<\/p>\n<h4>Unit 1 : Territories<\/h4>\n<p>Curator: Bernard Sch\u00fctze<\/p>\n<p>The exhibitions and interventions are grouped together into three distinct yet complementary units placed as signposts along the way. The first unit presents a video installation which draws viewers into a space where their gaze is invited to wander into a subject-less territory. Serving at once as an entry point and space of emergence, the notion of territories sets the stage for the [<em>UA<\/em>]\u2019s multiple embodiments and trajectories.<\/p>\n<p>A video in which a seemingly continuous shot travels through a series of abandoned rooms and corridors to form an improbable architectural entity with no outside. Comprised of a montage of footage selected from various video-sharing websites the work weaves multiple subject positions into a fictional monologic p.o.v belonging to no one in particular. In playing on the narrative conventions of the subjective shot and the trickery of montage, Patrick Ward&#8217;s <em>Monologue<\/em> reveals a paradoxical territory born of the encounter between an unknown subject and an unknowable object.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 14 &#8211; February 12, 2011<br \/>\nVideo Installation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-past","category-programming","nom-bernard-schutze","nom-patrick-ward"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Unknown Artist [Unit 1]: Territories - Centre des arts actuels SKOL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/skol.ca\/en\/programming\/the-unknown-artist-unit-1-territories\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Unknown Artist [Unit 1]: Territories - 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