The Deictic Garland

2007

3 channel video projection

Dysfunction, particularly technological dysfunction, is an interesting moment for me, as it offers a glimpse into the underlying texture of dynamic relations - a complex web of technological artefacts and social practices surrounding them - that mark the presence of technology in our contemporary times.

Though a foregrounding of dysfunction is sometimes equated with a Luddite position, I share no such retrograde utopia. Neither do I see myself as an evangelist of new technology. So, my engagement with technology then is that of critical engagement. In this work, the trope of dysfunction has been carried over into multiple contexts - from servers and routers to the organized practice of a particular discipline. The transient eddies of engagement and exchange that circulate along with more prominent and acknowledged conduits of interaction have always fascinated me. What happens when something or someone goes underground? How are new processes imagined into existence when one falls outside the visible gaze?