Individual points of fiction
Pam Patterson / Leena Raudvee
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Giambattista Vico wrote that knowledge is a doing and, in turn, doing is an act of being. ARTIFACTS,
known for its site-specific performances, deepens its relationship with/in space in Individual Points
of Fiction. Patterson and Raudvee address the divide between, and notion of, progress as process/product
and conflate the two so that in image making and in performance, they are occupied in the doing. Here
they focus on the research component of performance and, if one can recognize artistic practice as performative,
of studio practice. They study their interrelationship, their longstanding affiliation with A Space,
and the corridor spaces at 401 Richmond. The exhibition deconstructs images from a hallway performance
at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education – a site for arts-informed and educational research
- and transposes them onsite into A Space Windows.
A Space Gallery, Friday June 8th, 2012
The performance, expanding on this, reconfigures space as intersubjective and architectural. The physical space pixilates into discretely-timed moments. In “doing”,
ARTIFACTS accommodates and rejects, deconstructs and reassembles art’s questions as an infinite
horizon of diverse acts of autonomy.
BIO:
ARTIFACTS was formed in 1983 by Pam Patterson and Leena Raudvee to produce collaborative works
which combine the sensibilities and concerns of art and theatre. Over the years this practice has become
interdisciplinary performance art. In 2013 Miklos Legrady was invited
to join ARTIFACTS in recongition of his role as documentary photographer
whose physical presence within the performance as the public eye and silent witness takes
on the role of a third performer. While concentrating on performance, ARTIFACTS has also created
sound and video works and visual exhibitions. Recent works include: Individual Points of Fiction, A Space
Gallery; Palimpsest, Toronto Free Gallery and Homage to Margaret, CWSE University of Toronto. Other works
include: Pacing the Cage, Collisions 2006, Victoria BC; The Voyage Out for Buddies in Bad Times’ Hysteria:
A Festival of Women; Passing, 7A11D International Performance Art Festival; Detale (detail), presented
for Roundup 89; Attending II, part of the series Access to the Process at A Space Winchester St. Theatre,
Toronto. Earlier works included performances in theatres, the street, at the Theatre Centre and
the Partisan Gallery.
We gratefully acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government
of Ontario
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photography by Miklos Legrady
