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I is another
I is another.
– Rimbaud
Since each of us was several, there was already quite a crowd.
– Deleuze and Guattari
I is Another is a process-based, evolving installation by fifteen emerging artists. It examines how what is most intimate to us—our sense of identity, our desires—can be incarnated through dialogue with a collective.
Over the course of the exhibition, the artists will take turns to control the space and modify what has been created in the gallery before. In negotiation with the previous artist, they will respond to and reinterpret the creations of others. Objects and traces of activity will accumulate, evolving yet remaining cohesive, as well as ongoing, daily documentation through drawing of the work’s developments.
Through this process, I is Another explores notions of the self, the other and the collective. Ineradicable divisions and splits are discovered in what seemed unified, simple and familiar. The tension in the act of taking and releasing control is key: will we say yes or no – take, give, allow? Politics and politeness play into the mix.
The work is particularly interested in the effects of time: when we look back at our earlier selves, are we the same person? Will we recognise the things our desires bring about, or might these be alien too? Is the fabric of time linear at all, or is it torn and divergent? Sewn into this process is an element of surprise and the unknown, for viewers as well as for the artists themselves.
2020 The group re groups ...
This time, this amazing pandemic time has a new complexion for creation. Denied the ability to spend time physically together sparked this project to restart. Each artist isolated, except through technology platforms.
It afforded the opportunity for #iisanother to take place virtually.
Theme: Isolation
I Is Another 2020 evolves as each of us receives the work from the previous artist.
Our statement from 2015 still applies:
Beneath these evolving accumulations are dialogues and negotiations between the artists. I Is Another explores the self, the other and the community.
The work examines how what is most intimate to us—our sense of identity, our desires—can be incarnated individually and collectively.
In the isolation from others, what was thought to be unified, simple and familiar we see ineradicable divisions, splits, dualities, changes.
Each of us alone.
Sewn into its process, the work involves an element of surprise and the unknown: for viewers as well as the artists themselves.
– Rimbaud
Since each of us was several, there was already quite a crowd.
– Deleuze and Guattari
I is Another is a process-based, evolving installation by fifteen emerging artists. It examines how what is most intimate to us—our sense of identity, our desires—can be incarnated through dialogue with a collective.
Over the course of the exhibition, the artists will take turns to control the space and modify what has been created in the gallery before. In negotiation with the previous artist, they will respond to and reinterpret the creations of others. Objects and traces of activity will accumulate, evolving yet remaining cohesive, as well as ongoing, daily documentation through drawing of the work’s developments.
Through this process, I is Another explores notions of the self, the other and the collective. Ineradicable divisions and splits are discovered in what seemed unified, simple and familiar. The tension in the act of taking and releasing control is key: will we say yes or no – take, give, allow? Politics and politeness play into the mix.
The work is particularly interested in the effects of time: when we look back at our earlier selves, are we the same person? Will we recognise the things our desires bring about, or might these be alien too? Is the fabric of time linear at all, or is it torn and divergent? Sewn into this process is an element of surprise and the unknown, for viewers as well as for the artists themselves.
2020 The group re groups ...
This time, this amazing pandemic time has a new complexion for creation. Denied the ability to spend time physically together sparked this project to restart. Each artist isolated, except through technology platforms.
It afforded the opportunity for #iisanother to take place virtually.
Theme: Isolation
I Is Another 2020 evolves as each of us receives the work from the previous artist.
Our statement from 2015 still applies:
Beneath these evolving accumulations are dialogues and negotiations between the artists. I Is Another explores the self, the other and the community.
The work examines how what is most intimate to us—our sense of identity, our desires—can be incarnated individually and collectively.
In the isolation from others, what was thought to be unified, simple and familiar we see ineradicable divisions, splits, dualities, changes.
Each of us alone.
Sewn into its process, the work involves an element of surprise and the unknown: for viewers as well as the artists themselves.
Second Project instagram @iisanotherinstallation October 13 - December 21 2020
First Project George Paton Gallery February 25 - March 13 2015