TransCanaDADA Motorway Services: Two new performances by Starla Bontecou and The Gentleman

Saturday, December 11, 2010

TransCanadada Motorway Services: Transcanadada motorway is a way. That is, a path, a route which can be followed but also forged, a route subjectively traveling toward a relevant destination, but objectively set between arbitrary points which have significance as destinations only subjectively. It is a way traveled by many subjects and objects, and is thus a way comprised of many ways. It is a way of reaching subjective destinations and traversing objective pathways through the adoption of many ways simultaneously, or many ways oscillating and jumping between one another always. It is many different ways put together into a system of ways which is itself, on a higher plane, a single way, a way of many ways. It is fragmented ways, different ways, short ways, long ways, scenic ways, direct ways, low ways, high ways, layaways, freeways and unfortunately some non-free ways (though these should be kept to a minimum). It is especially a way of ways which have different names in different places and at different times, but this doesn't mean that they aren't still part of the TransCanadada motorWAY, even if a location identifies against this. Basically, there's room for multiplicity.