Tyler’s Work

Week 10

  • List of pins
  • List of shoes collection
  • List of safety pins from track and field paper
  • List of track bibs
  1. Place the bibs in numerical order
  2. Calculate the distance I have ran with each number
  3. Add the numbers of all the bibs I have ran
  4. Make each bib number equal to one
  5. Capture a series of signs between the distances

For my final approach, I calculated the sum of the distances that I have ran on the track at track and field meets in the past two seasons. I also documented the sum of the bib numbers that I collected for each meet. Personally, these sheets of numbered papers represent a memory in time, each meet brought forth a different experience and a different emotion. These numbered bibs not only generate an identity and map my distance on the track but stand in to reduce my identity to a manufactured number. At face value these bibs just look like numbers, however, through a critical analysis one can recognize the complexity and depth of this quantitative data.

  1.     37: 300m
  2.     39: 400m, 300m, 200m
  3.     54: 400m
  4.   106: 400m, 300m, 300m, 200m, 200m
  5.   139: 400m, 300m, 200m
  6.   158: 300m
  7.   168: 400m, 300m
  8.   169: 400m, 300m
  9.   225: 400m, 300m, 200m
  10.   250: 400m, 200m
  11.   406: 400m, 400m
  12.   407: 400m, 400m
  13.   606: 400m
  14.   733: 600m, 300m
  15.   803: 400m
  16.   828: 400m
  17.   996: 400m, 400m
  18. 1092: 400m, 400m
  19. 1520: 400m, 400m
  20. 2922: 400m
  1. Sum of bibs collected: 11,657
  2. Sum of distance ran: 12,800m, 12.8 kilometres 7.9 miles
  3. Sum of distance traveled to get to each meet:
  4. Toronto: 86km x 10 = 860 km
  5. Florida: 1,991km x 1 = 1,991 km  
  6. Montréal: 550km x 4 = 2,200km
  7. Windsor: 303km x 2 = 606km
  8. Manitoba: 2,127km x 1 = 2,127km
  9. Guelph: 1km x 2 = 2km

Total Distance travelled =  7,786km

Pages: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5, Page 6, Page 7

2 thoughts on “Tyler’s Work”

  1. Tyler:
    W1:
    Notes on Sol Lewitt, Yoko Ono, Nauman complete and evidence of curiosity and engagement with material.
    Kilometre image and description – seems related to conceptual practice, I like how you measured the kilometre using track/running and something you already do – measure this distance with the body. I like how you tracked each 100 metres with documentation. And sorry about your ankle!
    W2: Image of Abramovic/Stillness gesture, and description complete and a good idea, I appreciate you made yourself uncomfortable/challenged to create tension, and meaning in the work, and reflecting on all the discomfort, moments of failure, and struggle – but I need to see evidence too that you watched the film and really go into and understood the ideas in Abramovic’s works. Could use more references to show you watched and understood it.
    W3: 6 conceptual sentences are complete and sometimes get the idea – to write the simple formula for actions in each piece, as opposed to broader themes. Defenestration image and description missing.
    W4: Notes on Adad’s work missing, and Distancing video portrait missing.

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