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Hollow (2008) 28” four screen installation
This moving image work aims to examine how specific and contested site can be experienced, re-inhabited, negotiated and delimited, through the production processes of moving image installation. These clips show the four screen images and also the final piece of work at installation stage in studio. Inhabiting a specific site as an artist/filmmaker means also inhabiting aesthetic impulses and responses in the process of making, so acknowledging cultural implications as well as acknowledging ones own position in the research.
The involvement of the artist/filmmaker in this situation, is a process of inserting themselves into the proximity of a specific area, an area that is defined by past and present event; therefore they are creating a blurring of realities between then, now, and imaginative space; reflecting on the profound relationship between people and specific geographic site.
Video’s materiality provides an opportunity for reflexivity, defined by an ability to stretch, compress, and reverse image fields2, processes that Yvonne Spielmann notes are akin to language, to literature, to poetry. Video’s pliability and complexity produces a language charecterised by its formal property as being ‘wheels within wheels within wheels’, its infinite variations define its nature, producing reflexive actions to mediate its composure.3
The moving image work shows two performance artists responding to the architecture and spacial ‘codes’ of the site. Ultimately the visual moves beyond the physical boundaries of the site into an imaginative less defined psychological space, akin to Soja’s notion of ‘thirdspace’. Drawing on Soja4, Borges5 and Kwon6 such a work is a process of delimitation of spacial and imaginative experience, reasserting notions of specific site as being a network of flows of perceptual transitory information.
2 Spielmann Yvonne. (2008). Video The Reflexive Medium. MIT Press. Cambridge Massachusetts, London, England. p191
3Spielmann Yvonne. (2008). Video The Reflexive Medium. MIT Press. Cambridge Massachusetts, London, England. P191
4 Soja Edward.W.(1996) Thirdspace:Journeys tolos Angelese and other real-and Imagined Places. Blackwell Publishing. MA USA,Oxford.U.K. Victoria, Australia.
5
Borges Jorge Luis, Trans Hurley Andrew. (2000). The Aleph and Other Short Stories. Penguin Books Ltd. London.
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Kwon Miwon. (2002) One Place After Another. Site Specific Art and Locational Identity. The MIT Press. Cambridge Massachusetts. London, England.
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