Sibling Topics (section a), 2009 (2009)
By Ryan Trecartin
by writer and curator Kevin McGarry have been developed in conversation with the artist as a means to orient viewers to some of the key themes and structures of the work. comprises seven autonomous but interrelated videos. The work is structured as a diptych, with (four movies) as the other. Taken together, these videos embark on poetic, formal, and structural elaborations of new forms of technology, language, narrative, identity, and humanity, portraying an extra-dimensional world that channels the existential dramas of our own. core material is the perpetual flux of relationships among characters patterned to form constellations of meaning across videos. In the spirit of the work, which attempts to literalize the figurative to the point of abstraction, these formations can be imagined as having geometric properties that govern their interactions. The individual videos fit together, block, break, orbit, or attract one another in infinite shifting combinations. master narrative is subjectively chosen by the viewer, read from the shifting topography of its seven parts. Up close, the dynamics between characters sometimes seem to construct a plot and sometimes don’t. Consistently,…
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