about + diary + artists + symposium + exhibition + workshop + submissions + dislocate07 + dislocate06 + contact
Hamilton, Southern, St Amand

Hamilton, Southern, St Amand will present Running Stitch a project which explores how a track made with a GPS device changes our awareness and experience of place through the new vantage points and perspectives afforded by the use of satellite navigation. Visitors to the exhibition are given a GPS-enabled mobile phone to track their journeys through the city centre. These walks result in individual GPS 'drawings' of the visitor's movements that are then projected live in the exhibition to disclose hidden aspects of the city. Each individual route is sewn, as it is taking place, into a hanging canvas to form an evolving tapestry that reveals a sense of place and interconnection. The walker, who is aware of the line they are producing and of the audience at a distance, also becomes a performer of their relationship to a local place. It is only through being live and participatory that the audience perceives the push and pull of the relationship between themselves, the stitcher who sews the route onto the canvas, and the viewer at a distance and sees the city emerge from the canvas.

Hamilton, Southern, St Amand の「Running Stitch」は GPS 機器の使用による衛星を経由した視点・視野の獲得が私達にもたらす場所の意識と経験の変化がテーマです。作品を観に訪れた人々は GPS機能搭載の携帯電話を渡され、街の中を歩いて回ります。それぞれの歩く軌跡がGPSにより展示会場にライブで映し出され、街の知られざる一面を「ドローイング」してゆきます。ひとりひとりの辿る道筋が会場に設置されたキャンバスの上で絡み合い、街という場所と、そこに広がる繋がりをモチーフにしたタペストリーを織り上げてゆきます。また、街を歩く人々は作品の仕組みを理解する事で自らの歩く道程に自覚的になり、それを会場で見守る人々と共に、街を舞台にした一つのパフォーマンスを形成します。この作品は一つのライブパフォーマンスであり、キャンバスに道筋を縫い込んでいく側と、キャンバスの上に現れゆく街の姿を見守る側のバランスの中で成立します。