video and sound explorations of the
Paris, London, New York and Tokyo subways
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The Journey Begins Nate Pagel's epic Mass Transit cycle (1997–present) is a self-enclosed aesthetic system consisting of three collaborative sound and video segments that explore processes of connection and movement. The cycle unfolds not just cinematically from DVD’s, but also through the texts and pictures of a book, and installations and performances the artist produces in conjunction with each segment. Its conceptual departure point is the public transit system; specifically those of Paris, London and Tokyo. The project is rife with moving allusions to the discrete journeys taken on and within these unique systems. The cycle repeatedly depicts the start/stop nature in which the outcome of the process, the destination, is still unknown — in Pagel's metaphoric universe, these moments, these journeys represent a condition of pure potentiality. As the cycle evolves, Pagel looks beyond representing public transit as a mode of travel, instead employing a painterly, abstract approach to the moving images of these journeys to ask questions. Every time we utter one of these questions, a new narrative is created; but like the system it represents, the cycle often begins over again before the question is answered. There are three distinct works that make up the cycle, the first two of which are completed: -
Métropolitain (Paris, completed) More
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