TRACT

TRACT is an artists' collective, currently based in North London.

TRACT artists' work isn't typified by medium or discipline, rather by process driven, context-specific or context-responsive practise. In aiming to work with a sensitivity to the cultural, social and political context of 'site', the selection of location for display of artworks and events is a crucial aspect in the conception of all TRACT projects.

TRACT welcomes opportunities to meet or work collaboratively with other artists, curators, writers, designers, architects, organisations and community groups (this list is not exhaustive).

TRACT
1. A region or area of land of indefinite extent
2. A system of body parts or organs that collectively serve some specified purpose <the digestive ~>
3. A short practical treatise; esp a pamphlet of religious propaganda

tract (1)
    "area," 1494, "period or lapse of time," from L. tractus "track, course, space, duration," lit, "a drawing out or pulling," from stem of trahere "to pull, draw," from PIE base *tragh- "to draw, drag, move" (cf. Slovenian trag "trace, track," M.Ir. tragud "ebb," with variant form *dhragh-; see drag). The meaning "stretch of land or water" is first recorded 1553. Specific U.S. sense of "plot of land for development" is recorded from 1912; tract houses attested from 1963.
tract (2)
    "little book," 1432, probably a shortened form of L. tractatus "a handling, treatise, treatment," from tractare "to handle" (see treat). Not in any other language, according to OED.