Daniel Young and Christian Giroux have been making art together since 2002. Our work takes the form of sculpture, cinema installations, public artworks (some integrating urban design and landscape architecture), publications and exhibitions. Our practice originated within a dialog between architecture and sculpture, evolving through an engagement with research topics such as the modernity of the mid-century; additive manufacturing, new building construction and global supply chains; Canada’s infrastructural system; and curtain wall architecture.
Recently we have been framing our work as alternating between the notion that there are ‘no ideas but in things’ and that our artworks must offer access new and radical epistemologies.
In 2019 Camera Path / Film Path with under-titles has been shown Toronto, and Victoria, British Columbia, and the artists launched its publication a-bookthat-is-a-website-for-a-film-that-is-a-sculpture.cgdy. com. In 2018 we completed Three Points Where Two lines Meet for the City of Toronto, and our epic artist book Berlin 2013/1983 was short listed for the best architecture book by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum.
An experimental conceptual cinema project with the origins in the provocative question: from the global image system can we make an image of the globe? Is the world system of images an unrealized mega structure or a planetary scale artwork? Why make an artwork for a project space or a museum when there are 2.5 billion smart phones in the world? Negotiating universalism, through the basic understanding of what it means to be human is to produce images here on Earth. Traveling faster than any available form of transport in our inner atmosphere, functioning as an allegory for the speed of communication to collapse space, to cover the circumference of 40,075 km of the globe. What is the alter-image to the famous “Blue Marble” photo of the Earth from 1972 from the Apollo 17 spacecraft? Scrolling is the new smoking. An artist response to Social Media. The surface of the earth as the engine for a narrative loop. The cost structure of digital image production has produced a new race to the bottom that is similar for other aspects of the global economy.
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