XXXX COLLECTIVE
Case History
AUGUST 10 - AUGUST 20, 2011
OPENING RECEPTION: August 10, 6pm-9pm
Case History confronts documentation as an act of recording and storing information and as the product of this act that projects authority over how the information is perceived. XXXX Collective investigates the mechanics of this authority and the process of transformation undergone when the information a document contains is no longer immediately relevant, or an expression of contemporary thought.
The show is a methodological and personal investigation as to why nostalgia has become a popularized theme in our culture as demonstrated through the prolifeto.org/"; ration of that which is vintage or retro. It also examines the artists' desires to document their experiences and environment, and how these documents contribute to the construction of personal identity.
XXXX is the collective art persona of Shannon Garden-Smith, Corrie Jackson, Emily Smit-Dicks and Polina Teif. We are four artists who make work marked by a sympathy for serialization and documentation. By employing archiving as a procedural approach, our practices probto.org/";e our relations with our immediate environments. The circumstances of our chance participation in the information age fuel our particular;obsession with the role of the document as a facilitator of communication and understanding.
