All Roads Lead to Roam

Artists have often used their work as a way to record their travels, both physical and temporal. Exhibition Series All Roads Lead to Roam explores the ways visual artists represent their movements through space and time. 

All Roads Lead to Roam is inspired by the practice of derive (literally “drift” in French), developed by the Situationist artists and philosophers in the mid-twentieth century. Derive is defined as a “technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances.” Situationist Guy Debord wrote that “in a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their relations, their work and leisure activities, and all their other usual motives for movement and action, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there.” The Situationists used derive to uncover the subliminal influences on the ways people move through their environments. Like the Situationists, the artists in All Roads Lead to Roam will provoke viewers to think about how they move and interact with their surroundings.