Cardiff and Miller’s Road Trip (2004): Between Archive and Fiction
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Abstract
This paper uses an installation by the Canadian artists Cardiff and Miller to reflect on the nature of archival relationships and the possibilities of the archive as a fictional device. Road Trip is interpreted as a form of archive, creating relationships between different documentary layers that play out across time. It is suggested that the work’s impact derives from the tensions between the evidentiary and the narrative characteristics of the different “documents.” As an artwork, the constructed nature of Road Trip and its power to evoke an emotional response are obvious and intentional; nevertheless, these qualities are inherent in all archives. Art’s power to move reminds us of the need to be aware of the latent and potential layers of meaning within archives and the multifarious relationships they both embody and construct. RESUME Ce texte se fonde sur une installation des artistes canadiens Cardiff et Miller afin de reflechir sur la nature des liens archivistiques, et sur les possibilites de l’archive comme appareil litteraire. L’auteure y interprete Road Trip comme une forme d’archives qui cree des liens entre les diverses couches documentaires qui se manifestent avec le temps. Elle suggere que l’impact de cette oeuvre provient des tensions entre les caracteristiques probantes et narratives des « documents » differents. Comme oeuvre d’art, la nature interpretee de Road Trip et son pouvoir de susciter une reaction emotive sont evidents et intentionnels; neanmoins, ces qualites sont inherentes a toutes les archives. Le fait que l’art detient ce pouvoir de susciter une reaction emotive nous rappelle le besoin d’etre conscient des diverses couches de sens cachees et potentielles a l’interieur des archives, ainsi que des liens multiples qui sont incarnes par les archives, ou encore, construits par elles.
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Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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