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'Losing the Plot' explores the gap between the high accuracy world of Global Positioning Systems and the raw experience of place.

Losing the Plot – XYZ/T v15-220206

Martin Walch

June, 2006

  • Media related
  • Wall based sculptural representation of GPS tracking
  • Digital Print-based material
  • Recorded Sound
  • Methodology
  • Gallery installation
  • Non-networked (Standalone)
  • Mixed lighting
  • Stereo Sound
  • Previously exhibited or screened
  • New work
  • Provenance
  • Collection of the artist

Artist Statement

The central concern of my work is a preoccupation with the perception of space, and its representation through so-called ‘objective’ systems of measurement. My work is about the inability of empirical systems to provide descriptions of reality that go beyond the rational. I have pursued a process of investigation that focuses on the description of landscape as the primary subject matter to explore space and place – this is due to the accessibility of landscape as a common experiential space and because of its complex and culturally dependant definitions.

Losing the Plot explores the gap between the high accuracy world of Global Positioning Systems, and the raw experience of place.