The Biennial of the Mind 2010 digital photographs In progress - unclear what the final form of this will be - maybe it remains research. Here, like in the audio piece Untitled (211 Elizabeth Street/Alido Pavan/10 Minutes/1 Day), I’m looking into the relationships between the visible world and its less visible counterparts in thought. I wanted to isolate the institutional Whitney Qua Whitney schemata from the artwork and site entirely to see where it leads. I’m not interested in institutional or curatorial critique here so much but more in looking at the whole set of wall labels as a kind of perceptual system or framework. As a perceptual framework it does illuminate common perceptual values as well as the implied stated values of the curators and the artists... also interesting is how it functions: serving to restrict the ambiguity of experience and interpretation to a controlled domain with set areas for known unknowns. With its roots in Kant’s insight that to some extent we comprehend reality through conceptual frameworks or schemata constructed by the mind that approximate external reality, this project arose from my interests on mental/social constructs.

The Biennial of the Mind

2010

digital photographs

In progress - unclear what the final form of this will be - maybe it remains research.

Here, like in the audio piece Untitled (211 Elizabeth Street/Alido Pavan/10 Minutes/1 Day), I’m looking into the relationships between the visible world and its less visible counterparts in thought.

I wanted to isolate the institutional Whitney Qua Whitney schemata from the artwork and site entirely to see where it leads. I’m not interested in institutional or curatorial critique here so much but more in looking at the whole set of wall labels as a kind of perceptual system or framework.

As a perceptual framework it does illuminate common perceptual values as well as the implied stated values of the curators and the artists... also interesting is how it functions: serving to restrict the ambiguity of experience and interpretation to a controlled domain with set areas for known unknowns.

With its roots in Kant’s insight that to some extent we comprehend reality through conceptual frameworks or schemata constructed by the mind that approximate external reality, this project arose from my interests on mental/social constructs.