HOW DO YOU TRACE A PATH WHEN THE WORLD EXPECTS YOU TO BE THERE ALREADY?
During the GlogauAIR residency, L’Élanographe took digital form as an interactive website. Here, a line drawn on the screen becomes a path that may lead somewhere unexpected.
The questions — where are we, and where are we going? — take on particular resonance in the unsettled and increasingly immaterial times we are living through. They become especially pressing when the paths laid out for us no longer seem possible to follow.
The Deictic Cartography below offers a first way in. Click to mark where you are, then drag to trace a path through a world still taking shape.
Take the space to draw your line
Explore the thinking behind the work
Three ways to explore how a path takes shape
Tiphaine Scott de Martinville is a French artist developing situated cartographies and devices of (dis)orientation.
Her work begins with an institutional and professional paradox: people are asked to imagine new futures, while the language, timeframes, and outcomes of that imagination remain governed by performance imperatives.
She works with projective and reflective speech from facilitated conversations, following its impulses and examining the frameworks that enable and constrain it.
Her practice of poietic dialogue assembles words, diagrams, gestures, images, and activatable installations into situations where exploratory thought can regain time, presence, and the capacity to move otherwise.
At GlogauAIR, she extends this research through L’Élanographe: an interactive environment bringing together an elanographic compass, cartographies and experiments that make orientation perceptible without prescribing a direction.