Tour Guide

Tour Guide is not a map, but rather a misdirection, an index of detours, false starts, and offbeat exits. Rather than accompanying the portfolios, it escapes them. The texts archived here are errant para-texts, such as footnotes  and appendices to works that may never be made or exhibited. Written intermittently from the 1990s to the present, these writings accumulate in the margins of a long conversation with art.

Neither critical essays nor artist statements, these texts are experiments in art writing—sometimes theoretical, sometimes performative, and often absurd. Their function is closer to contraband than to explication. They transport barely resolved ideas from one conceptual register to another, often through irony, mimicry, or 'pataphysical sleight of hand.

Some simulate interviews that never happened. Others impersonate catalogs, manifestos, or lost academic papers. In Swann's Way, a fictitious exchange occurs between a Proustian flâneur and a painter who refuses to engage with the semantics of painting. The painter disdains art theory and subverts the structure of a televised political interview. Declaration borrows from Lyotard's text on Duchamp to perform a metaphysical auto-dismantling of the page, the platform, and personhood. Other entries mutate. Some are dead ends. Others rewrite themselves.

Therefore, "Tour Guide" is a misnomer—there are no routes here, only recursive loops, forgeries of thought, and glossolalic footpaths. Visitors are advised not to follow, but to stray. If you find yourself lost, know that it is working.