The Return of the Real, 2006
3 x 16mm colour film loops
Installation view
The Return of the Real, 2006
3 x 16mm colour film loops
Installation detail
Structural Constellation, 2006
3 x 16 mm colour film loops
Installation view
Structural Constellation, 2006
3 x 16 mm colour film loops
installation detail
Untitled, 2004
Mixed media
Iinstallation view
Untitled, 2004
Mixed media
Iinstallation view
Statment
My film and video installations question the filmic, sculptural and architectonic qualities of the moving image. They are installed in architectural configurations, frequently presented across two or three screens so that the questions of past and presence, framing and projection are interrogated and expanded notions of these are proposed. This work aims to blur the distinctions between film and sculpture, art and cinema.
My practice is influenced by an interest in seminal avant-garde film. Non Places (1999), for example, is a contemporary take on the constructivist films of the 1920's and 'Where a straight line meets a curve (2003) was inspired by the use of resonant frequencies from Alvin Lucia's 'I am sitting in a room' [1970]. In my recent work, I have often taken a single visual observation as a point of departure, such as the space between tower blocks in 'The Space Between' (2005), the gesture of performing a 360 degree walking rotation with a camera in 'Structural Constellation' (2006) or the cinematic principles inherent in photo realist painting in The Glass Stare (2006). From these initial images, I have intertwined a range of visual and conceptual languages, combining analytical and experimental sequences to create open-ended works. In my forthcoming work, 'The Return of the Real' (2007), I am working with performances by passers-by in a series of interrelated mise-en-scènes that reflect issues of subjectivity and authorship.