Conceived and expressed through the medium of the exhibition, Remote is characterised by its ‘distributed’ form. The accompanying Gallery Guides provide trhe gallery visitor with information related to the curatorial design of the exhibition’s ‘scenography’ and the particular ‘itinerary’ involving the locative media artwork contributed by the curator, _V. Travels In The Netherworld _.
The exhibition’s distinctive scenography (as the interrelationship between curatorial thematics, which are expressed through the communicative act of exposition involving scenic design, and the exhibition as the writing of that space ) draws upon the particular characteristics of the Plimsoll Gallery and its local environment, which has been incorporated into the overall sweep of the ‘expanded’ exhibition. This inclusion of other locales in the immediate proximity of the Centre for the Arts – their hyper-linking and interconnection to the exhibition – results in the transformation of the exhibition from being experienced as an ‘installation’ into something more likened to an ‘itinerary’. The installation, naturally, occupies gallery space and exercises its language and potentials, but each of these works in their own ways also utilize the gallery in more ‘instrumental’ way – as a node in a wider network – by connecting dispersed, networked and superimposed components back to that space.
V. Travels In The Netherworld (2006)promotes the mobility and agency of the viewer by linking distributed media contents to a series of locational markers that situate this narrative across the ‘in-between’ spaces of the exhibition. By alluding to the conventional role of a Gallery Guide or ‘Companion’, the psychogeographic relation of these different real and virtual spaces is suggested by the convergence of ‘tagged’ representational content with the place-based context in which these episodes are encountered.