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The lines of artistic production may be better imagined nowadays via the lines of flight routes, railway tracks, and/or the World Wide Web rather than via visionary paths such as journey, expedition, discovery, stories, rumors, or other encounters. Mobile (and ubiquitous) vehicles carry artists, curators, and art critics to familiar or unfamiliar, near or far destinations, and these trips carry within them the implication of another beginning. The cycle of production in art as well as in other fields has become much more efficient and faster than was previously imagined, creating numerous new strata and venues. “We” live and work within this very zone of mobility, which is generated and accelerated by the global economy. Report (Not Announcement) finds its ground in this condition of reality.
Report (Not Announcement) is a transitionary report on the state of mobility where artists and curators are circumscribed. The report consists of items submitted by 48 cultural producers who continuously travel from one place after another or migrate on their own, and seek to rethink and relocate their practices within the global context. However, they often (dis)place themselves in a lacuna between destinations or places, translated as non-places or spaces of transition. These have been the subject of critical and often sceptical attention, and define our contemporaneity as supermodernity. Being constantly in flux, these cultural producers respond to this lacuna in unconventional ways by reporting and reflecting on their own ontological state of leaving and arriving. Report (Not Announcement) is comprised of such accounts and documents. e-flux (electronic flux corporation) offers this project a challenging platform. Since its beginning in 1999 by a group of artists, e-flux has become one of the requisite distributors of information on contemporary visual culture and perhaps the most far-reaching one. e-flux announcements are issued daily and make numerous international cultural events known to people all over the planet. This report situates itself and finds its readers in this terrain: “in flux” where artistic activities and locations are connected, revealing our conditions of work, production, and experience. |
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