< T h e P i o n e e r s>
montage / bricolage / assemblage ✦ a discursive network
not a platform & not a thing & not fixed meaning
meaning ≠ message but effect → adjacency ↻ recursion ↻ overlap
authorship < slips > interpretation < resists > closure
multi-voice ⟶ multi-channel ⟶ multi-media 📡
fragments → reassembled → lived experience
≈ signal ≈ echo ≈ index
of the familiar / uncanny ✨
INT. MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY - DAY
TONY CRAGG circumambulates a sculpture in Gallery Room 1.
He moves around it without apparent destination.
MUSE
The feeling of collective meaning lingers. Who’s we?
THE PIONEERS
All of us, together.
ACTOR
Attaboy.
TONY moves around another sculpture in the same room.
The movement repeats.
In Gallery Room 2, TONY walks from left to right in front of a sculpture.
He reverses direction.
He walks from right to left.
CUT.