French curator Sebastien Pluot has once stated that ‘to understand the work of A Constructed World you have to have been in it’. Since 1993 many documented and untold people have made this interpersonal contact with the artists and their work. ACW’s work is built on and around conversations that may have already-been, but emerge and become active again once we decide that a work of art has been made. These networks and contacts are the material, substance and memory of the works that accrue.
ACW have made 20 Partitions since 2004. Two have been sold to institutions (FRAC Pays de la Loire in France and MUMA in Melbourne) and two to private collections in Melbourne and Paris. The Partition is first of all a performance of speech, text and gestures across geography and time that potentially evokes who and where-we-are. These performances took place over decades, involving hundreds of participants and contributors and are now in places where they can be re-enacted, restaged re-presented and rethought in different ways for perpetuity.
The purpose is to incorporate and traverse performativity, rehearsal, re-enactment and display. Whilst each archive or documentation can be seen as perspicacious and discerning, it is not the intention of these works to find proscriptive authority but rather to enable a work that can be re-activated and remade by different audiences and in different contexts.
ACW have made 20 Partitions since 2004. Two have been sold to institutions (FRAC Pays de la Loire in France and MUMA in Melbourne) and two to private collections in Melbourne and Paris. The Partition is first of all a performance of speech, text and gestures across geography and time that potentially evokes who and where-we-are. These performances took place over decades, involving hundreds of participants and contributors and are now in places where they can be re-enacted, restaged re-presented and rethought in different ways for perpetuity.
The purpose is to incorporate and traverse performativity, rehearsal, re-enactment and display. Whilst each archive or documentation can be seen as perspicacious and discerning, it is not the intention of these works to find proscriptive authority but rather to enable a work that can be re-activated and remade by different audiences and in different contexts.
