The Pioneers is an evolving artistic practice unfolding across painting, film, publishing, and exhibition, on and offline. The work moves through three connected operations: Montage, where encounters enter; Bricolage, where they are transformed through memory, imagination, and performance; and Assemblage, where they become paintings, images, objects, texts, and films. Together, these accumulate into Agile Cinema®, a series of short episodic films that recombines the material into publicly screened cinematic works. Each stage feeds the next, forming an open cycle in which fragments accumulate, change, return, and re-enter the world.
The World as Thou
(Characters)
David Evans Frantz & Martin Buber
(Dramatic Need)
To find somewhere to put all this culture.
(Internal Need)
To learn how to live in relationship with the world rather than outside it.