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This must be the place: Vera Frenkel, David Rokeby, Nell Tenhaaf and Norman White.

Publication: Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine
Publication Date: 01-APR-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
This Must Be the Place Vera Frenkel, David Rokeby, Nell Tenhaaf and Norman White InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre Toronto September 16-November 7

Relocation and mobility enter into the discourse of contemporary art with relative frequency. To reposition a practice or engage an audience in a notion of the nomadic is common, and when an institution relocates, the sense of its history can overwhelm. How does one rethink and re-present the past without the trappings of institutionalism and canonization? One strategy is a year-zero approach, restructuring without considering the past. This can be seductive and the weight of any particular history is massive. For younger participants it is simply not their history. This more revolutionary approach is often necessary when a political "cleaning of house" is in order. Here the events of post-1968 Paris in French film and literature come to mind. Another approach,...

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