LOCATIONS & DISLOCATION will be showing in The Gentrification of Brooklyn at MoCADA from February 4 to May 16, 2010. Hope to see you there!
Project Statement:
LOCATIONS & DISLOCATION is a postcard project about moving. It creatively and subjectively describes the people who move from home to home in the urban environment, swept by the forces of the city and the ebbs and flows of life changes. The marks of their presence often vanish from each place they leave, replaced by new tenants and sometimes new buildings entirely. This energy of movement, both voluntary and forced, is a vital component of the contemporary urban landscape.
The process: I collect an individual’s past and current addresses, map these moves, and then remove the map, leaving an abstract line drawing. I collect the reasons for each move, such as: job, love, priced out, rats, light, band, adventure, safety, space, etc. I print the line drawing and the reasons on a postcard and mail it to the person.
The project searches for the poetry in this personal data, creating abstract biographies of a person as he or she moves through a city. It reveals the complexities that underlie a mobile population and excavates the choices and forces that shape an individual’s path, while providing abstract documentation and affirmation of people whose often untraceable presence is essential to the fabric of urban life.
Exhibitions:
2010 The Gentrification of Brooklyn at MoCADA (Brooklyn, NY)
2008 CONFLUX presented by Glowlab at Center for Architecture (New York, NY)
2008 SESC Mostra de Artes (Sao Paulo, Brazil) read about it
2008 Electronic Social Club (New York, NY)
