Collection; 1. the act or process of collecting. 2. a number of things collected or assembled together. 3. something gathered into a mass or pile.
'Relocating the Remains', is a project which sets out to echo the concept of the 'expedition'. Not the 'expedition' in any high colonialist sense; the expedition which saw the power to survey, map and record as a prelude to subjugation and annexation under the hegemony of some imperialist power. More 'expedition' in the sense of an individual's exploration of a landscape across which others have past, leaving fragmented remains, traces and ephemera. It becomes therefore, 'expedition' in the sense of ones efforts to uncover and decipher, to accumulate, translate and relocate the remains.
In the case of this project, the act of 'relocation' takes on multiple meanings. In a literal sense, the relocation becomes from physical to virtual space. The remains of objects, activities and idea's which at one time exclusively occupied the cold space of galleries and other places designated for the display of art, have become disembodied, recoded into digital form. At points these remains are compacted onto CD-Rom , at others they are set adrift onto the virtual expanses of the Internet.
We have the choice of relocating the remains which lie beyond three virtual gateways. The first gateway is called "UnMapped". The Second is called "UnRecorded", the third is called "Unclassified". Beyond "UnMapped" lies an investigation of the various perceptions of the black body as defined beneath the dominant gaze. "UnRecorded" examines the gaps in historical narratives which continue to distort and obscure black presence. "UnClassified" centres around an examination of the impact of new technologies on surveillance and policing, especially in relation to notions of community, nation and cultural difference.