Milepost 1422
A journey to the past. Mythical journey. Open space and time...
This art project is constructed around the notion of journey
and exploring space. This is not unusual. It relates to a specific geographic
and physical experience yet it is not locate; it is not happening in actuality
but is presented and hosted through virtual space. A certain tension exists
between the actual event and the original one projected. At some point the
two are real and virtual at once.
In this project one traveller uses a record of another's journey to create and follow the progress of the same route, creating a parallel journal. Exploring the experience of journey as well as how the record of it is created.
This project exists linked to the record of a real journey, the journal and photographs of Andy Wilson, who travelled from Glasgow to Toronto and to Fairbanks back in 1991. This journey is a life experience and the journal created a form of evidence, an insight on the traveller, a memory of observations, a narrative about movement. The new journey is presented taking as its point of origin this accurated memory, but is not remaking or retracing the original if not developing issues, stopping in others, creating a parallel memory of it. It is a reading in between lines were the unexpected can happen. This project is a collaborative venture if you like, happening with a lapse of 15 years and located enterely in memory land.
Some projects are progressing towards a unknown outcome. This project in theory has solved that point, the journal, the images, the letters exists and there's no pressumption to dismiss it or change it. There are however a quite specific aims which are to create a dialogue , become a participant, intereact to a certain degree with the original experience creating an alternative record.
The "traveller", or more accurately the "virtual traveller" revisiting this memory record becomes the narrator of a joined experience, contributing to the journey, adding or discovering a new layer of meaning.
As in the original the new journal will
develop in multiple ways, from letters to sounds, to notes, to drawings. The
website will record this development from the beginning and continue cross
referencing parts from the original journal leading off to show new developments
.