select important things
select important things (2022)
part of European Cultural Centre's Personal Structures
Palazzo Bembo
Venice, Italy
23 April - 27 November 2022
In select important things (2022), I create my own knowledge system to navigate the shifting landscape of meaning and meaning-making in the 21st century. This knowledge system, a collection of video fragments that combine stock footage with original spoken texts, contrasts a deeply subjective understanding of the world with images of its generalities. Through a series of installations for online and physical sites, the project considers increasingly fraught questions about how humans make knowledge and how that knowledge, in turn, (re)makes the world. Each iteration of select important things configures and reconfigures the knowledge system videos, organising them with systems and intentions that are obscured from the audience. The videos create ever changing narratives as they interweave personal representations with those provided by search algorithms and free video libraries. The project includes a browser-based installation, which can be viewed at selectimportantthings.com.
This project was produced with the support of the Canada Arts Council and the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.
