David Court’s work lacks a stable or reliable methodology, operating instead through responsiveness—to architectural contexts, curatorial frameworks, institutional protocols, and theoretical discourse. These considerations operate alongside a form of authorship that self-consciously seeks to address the dramas of the institution and practice of art, on the level of organization, narration and display. Scattered fragments of material (texts, images, and objects) are gathered into ambivalent and theatrical patterns of association, expression, and style. This work operates with and in the tension between the ethical demand of expression and the institutionalization of taste and sensibility, dwelling on various dysphoric affects of contemporary life—states of suspension, alienation, and impasse—as they manifest in artistic practice and material culture.
Artist Bio
DAVID COURT
David Court is an artist and writer currently living and working in Ulster County, New York. He holds a Masters in Visual Studies from the University of Toronto (2009) and a BFA from NSCAD University (2006). Recent exhibitions include: Artist’s Rendering (Distressed, Relaxed), AxeNéo7, Gatineau, Quebec, 2017; You can tell that I’m alive and well because I weep continuously, The Knockdown Center, Queens, New York, 2017; Apparatus for a Utopian Image, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, New York, New York, 2016; Self-Titled (Materials for a 21st Century Room—or SWAMPED, EXHAUSTED, HESITATING), 8eleven, Toronto, Ontario, 2016; David Court, Aryen Hoekstra, Shane Krepakevich, Modern Fuel Artist Run Center, Kingston, Ontario, 2016.
Beware: whoever pretends to be a ghost will eventually turn into one
Beware: whoever pretends to be a ghost will eventually turn into one
In the last few years, Court 's exhibitions have seemed to approach the question of responsiveness away from the presupposition that his role (and that of his collaborators) would be above all to "reveal," once more, hidden meaning unspeakable by the institution hosting the work.