Reminder/Remainder
Emilie Allen, Ayaz Kamani, Bitsy Knox, Courtney Ross
March 14 - April 1, 2006
Reception: March 25, 2006 6-8p


Bitsy Knox, Hunkshrine, mixed media 2006

Bitsy Knox
I save a lot of stuff for 'posterity's' sake. I reason that, one day, they will be powerful artifacts of a lost time - something to show my grandchildren - but I think it's less altruistic than that. The information that I keep is an attempt to catalogue vague recollections of times which I will soon forget. Memories, to me, are partially self-constructed. In re-constructing and manipulating the documents of my past, I am attempting to create a subjective history of myself, adding and subtracting information in order to formulate a convenient self-image.

Emilie Allen
In my work for Reminder, Remainder, ephemeral narratives link remnants of past, present, and future experiences to construct a montage where memory meets imagination through an abstract portrayal of personal identity as a form of truthful fiction. This intuitive layering of retrospective documentation, collection of artifacts, mapping and storytelling, reference my daily practice, thoughts, and imaginings, through a system of archiving, re-inventing and re-imagining remnants of my life, to reflect the precious ‘present’ quality of experience and memory from a position of nothingness/absence/non-existence (distance).

Courtney Ross
My artwork stems from my obsessive behavior of recording my thoughts and experiences on a daily basis, which prompted me to examine the role these actions play in the formation of the self. Through relational art I seek to question the modes through which other people form their identities. The subjective role material objects and documentation play in the construction and maintenance of a memory is explored as I attempt to reveal relationships that exist between the participant’s experiences and our everyday existence.

Ayaz Kamani
The show is a collaboration, a chance for a group of people to share opinions. The two projects that are under my name are about attaching meaning to objects while at the same time exploring the exaggeration of human movement and urges. Ideas and beliefs are explored. The objects represent the physicality of those ideas. These projects can be interpreted on many levels. My intent is to give the audience a sense of where these ideas come from.