| Kit Wise |
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Sojourner
6 - 21 May 2005 Diderot’s Enlightenment concept of the encyclopaedia, as interpreted by Umberto Eco, is considered in the light of the equally horizontal, osmotic movements characteristic of the post-colonial condition. The ‘non-colour’ or void associated with white, the default screen of the internet, is used as a test-site for Eco’s notion of language organized as an encyclopaedia rather than a dictionary – dependent on rhizomatic cross-reference, rather than static, hierarchical structures. Drawing on current communications and photographic technology, the artist/photographic author as ‘sojourner’, in reference to the news-reporter of Carson McCuller’s short story of 1954, becomes a medium for assessing the increasingly fluid or plastic experience of both geographical and cultural space, as well as contemporary identity. Kit Wise practiced as an artist in London, Paris, New York and Rome, before settling in Melbourne in 2002. He currently lectures in Fine Art in the Faculty of Art & Design at Monash University, and in 2006 will undertake an Australia Council Tokyo Studio residency.
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