project proposal
Work in Progress, proposed to an exhibition
on site-specific works
A back projected video installation
to be seen on the windows of the Mcbean project Gallery space
from outside on the upper deck of the Art Institute. Using the
Architecture as a starting point, I see the potential to use
a life-like medium to interfere into the static construction
material that one encounters daily. I have in mind to rear project
a sped up loop of clouds passing by a window space on a scrim
lining the window in the McBean space. The viewer (outside)
would see what appears to be either a reflection of sky on the
window of the gallery or a hole punched through the architecture
where a continuum of sky is made available once again after
dissembling the concrete and glass construction. Slowly, over
time a text will play out over the sky footage, a text which
references a return to weather as a means of producing possibility
and dynamism, and the desire to overcome a crippling self-awareness
and become, oneself, a force of nature, or ‘of use’
like nature. The text is, above all, an illogical and personal
narrative or poetic. Imposed on the objective rational structure
of the architecture, the institution, and the natural world
it makes the stolid speak glossolalically, and it invests the
personal with agency.
I wish to work within the codes of
this specific architecture, providing new and unexpected vistas,
chance social encounters, introspective passage. I am thrilled
by the opportunity to explore how image, language, and architecture
can come together in this project to question space, place,
and personal locatedness in our present culture.
This project involves one video projector,
DVD player, and a scrim (or acetate) to be attached to the inside
of the Mcbean windows. |
