PROOF\testing
PROOF\testing; a Proposal, 2015. Project is ongoing since 2000, with onset of Building Drawings for Unbuilt Projects.
PROOF\testing is proposed as ephemeral intervention, at the intersection of performance, audio, sculpture, photography, video, drawing, and writing. Duration is flexible, as is space. The title refers to proof as evidence, as action "to proof", (in photography and printing—an intermediary stage), and as ideation (theorem). This work engages with the dismemberment of a failed body of work and its reconstitution through the performative staging of process and intermediary states—staging a self-conscious workspace.
project dates: 2000–present.
Building Drawings for Unbuilt Projects, part of PROOF\testing
Building Drawings for Unbuilt Projects; Engineering Drawings, Blackprints, 2012
A group of the 'Building Drawings' fleshed out. Engages an observer in their own psychological projection, their own speculation, of what the "Unbuilt Projects" might actually appear as if realized in physical space. The concept of 'plan', of 'blackprint-blueprint' furthers the notion of in-betweenness, development, of speculation. The everyday format of Engineering Plan, the Blackprint-Blueprint, is used to "make sense" visually—to describe ideas about architecture, place, space, scale, and use —staging the site of enunciation —for the"making of sense."
PROOF\testing is an ongoing project. Five drawings from the project are published on the AUP Project (eflux/Serpentine) website.
Building Drawings for Unbuilt Projects;
The Little Ease
"The Little Ease was a middle age torture device–which contorted and forced the inhabitant to its shape. This structure, once found, worked its way into my psyche as a stand-in for the confines of culture, for the claustrophobic box of gendered identity, and the shaping of body, behavior, and psyche to its form." –A. Daly 2012
PROOF\testing; as Performance, as Intervention
