Situ

Description:

Situ was a web-based curatorial project developed by Elizabeth Fischer during a residency at Western Front.

It featured five expanded text works hosted on purpose-built website around the theme of loci and dialogue as expressed through the concepts of diary and autobiography. The works were Grandfather Gets a House by Elizabeth Fischer, Real-to-Real by Lora McElhinney, Stain by Tim McLaughlin, Map Making by Maija Graham, and Where Am I by Sheila Urbanoski.

Of the project, Fischer writes “With the advent of digital technologies, it is possible to create an artistic work that is no longer dependent on an imposed linearity; it is possible to allow the viewer to participate with the artistic work. The resulting experience is non-linear, circular—it is an interaction with the artist. How a conceptual, literary ‘whole’ is assembled from many components is directly dependent on its context. The work is re-invented with each viewing—the work becomes conversant.”