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| Screeners | 2002 |
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| DVD | 3:34 loop video projection with sound
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<< | Installation view, Prema Art Centre, Gloucester, UK 1/6 | >> |
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In Screeners the figure becomes
flanked by her electronic clones, producing a collective who ride over
the landscape, replicating at will. The work relies on satellite images
of earth, specifically of the Sierra Nevada mountain range lifted from
material produced with data from the U.S. Geological Survey. The material
has been manipulated to resemble the Arctic landscape, the place whose
historical reach signified earth’s total conquest. As the physical
space of the planet appears to shrink via satellite mapping and imaging
technologies, an excess of space is produced through the images that serve
as its substitute. The theme of overabundance also is carried over into
the notion of group identity, tackled by imaging a swarm-like army of characters
inhabiting the arctic space. The video projection envisions the passage
of three configurations: the ‘scouts’ who race ahead of the
main body, investigating, conveying speed and intention; the core group,
ominous in their presence and numbers as well as strict in their chorography;
and the ‘stragglers’ who lag behind creating a space to play
or act out before falling back into pattern. |
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