to move too fast to move
Light Square Gallery, SA
A wandering mind, or a disorientated being, is commonly acknowledged as cause for concern; those who may appear to be lost are often collected for treatment or medicalization. But perhaps we need to re-evaluate our relationships with these destabilising periods. Perhaps finding oneself overwhelmed by options or uncertain of direction may be a reality that’s becoming unavoidable, due to the current acceleration of information from our surroundings of perpetual technological advances. The theories of Paul Virilio, Jane Bennett and Jonathon Crary, and the practices of Bruce Nauman, Robert Morris and Peter Fischli & David Weiss (amidst others), provide the framework for this investigation of the potential perils and pleasures that may present as opportunities for recreation.
Through a practice-led research process, I’ve attempted to engage with the often overwhelming sensation of uncertainty in a slapstick style reconstruction of the gallery surroundings into unfamiliar configurations. By activating the distorted space with kinetic movers the audience’s sensory receptors may be overloaded as you navigate through the space, causing a sense of disorientation and destabilisation, revealing the opportunity for an exploration of one’s ability to restructure the self and find new passages.
to move too fast to move, whilst responding directly with the structural components of the exhibition space, has the ability to address these ideas of confusion that are not bound by the confounds of the gallery walls, as Miwon Kwon proposes, contemporary life is an active network. By embedding the energy of kinetic movements into the commonplace, structural interventions, I employ a slapstick approach that demands a second look at these indecisive states that may commonly be dismissed or overlooked.
List of works:
never ceiling the deal
2017
plasterboard, 40x40x1.4mm aluminium angle, untreated pine, paint, 12V reversible gear head DC motor, pink balloon, 1200x900x190mm
floored and up the wall
2017
pine, 12V reversible gear head DC motor, dimensions variable
not pressed metal
2017
flashing, 3x3m lengths, 12V reversible gear head DC motor, pine wood, pine knocker
parting pillar
2017
concrete, plywood, red hand fly swat, orange ping pong ball, 12V reversible gear head DC motor
this is duct
2017
spiral duct, mop head, 12V reversible gear head DC motor