Category Archives: Martin Gantman

Martin Gantman (gantman.com)

The Tracker Manifesto

The Tracking Project investigates the recognition and gathering of trace – evidence that is perceived, sometimes even inadvertently and subconsciously, and that exposes the bias and direction of a culture’s migration. This dispassionate accumulation of trace invests a Tracker, as with a guide, in support of their unique temporal voyage that occurs within this mass movement.

The Tracker is not anxious but is aware, not suspect but attentive, is silent yet present. Simultaneously, a Tracker carries the acknowledgement – maybe blasé – of a regard for the inevitability of consciousness, of the impotence of control, and of the curiosity toward an objective. Not so much acquiescence, this acknowledgement proposes the acceptance of a question around the relative importance of one’s negotiation toward death. It begs the presence of the super real, extra-durational instant and broaches the internal dispute between ones appreciation of wonder and the enduring threat of its potential homicide.

* ICI Projects
Matchbook Project 1996
Manual of Lost Ideas 1998
Benjamin Blind Spot 2000
Cover for Aids Chronicles 2004