A play on GPS tracking technology, Strange Positioning Systems (SPS) looks at the aesthetic, cultural and psychological peculiarities of positioning the self and collective enterprises in a fluid, electronically - dislocated environment. The neighborhood or village of old no longer exists in the immediate vicinity. A crossbred community constructed of local and distant relationships, a variety of virtual spaces, and rapidly adjusted identities, ethnicities and even definitions of what constitutes the boundaries of the organism, now replaces it. We approach this exercise with no delusions that a formal solution exists to settle this state of affairs. Space is warping beyond repair. Ethnic identities are cross-breeding with each other and machines. The future will remain strange. Constant adjustment, a sense of permanent tilting, is de rigueur. We are all using SPS today.
SPS had its incubator inception at ArtSPACE in New Haven, CT but as per its mission, evolving as a “strange system” or temporary environment with feeds from various places in the world and led by a different artist or presenter. One space overlaps another creating a new architecture. Live feeds from other locations are inherent in the event. Each evening is dedicated to the work of one artist and will be presented in a multitude of ways----none following the format of the last. Some evenings are focussed on performance, others animation and others filmmaking. Some will plunge into the mix.
StandBy LIZ, Alexander Viscio