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Mixed media installation with live camera, chromakey unit and pre-recorded video (dimesions variable) click images above for slideshow A false door is set into a wall of the exhibition space. Sound can be heard coming from behind the door and a notice on the wall next to it reads 'Exhibition continues this way'. Opposite the door is a video camera on a tripod and the image from the camera is streamed live to a video monitor. When the door is opened, rather than another room, the viewer is met with a solid surface painted with chromakey blue paint within the door frame. On the adjacent video monitor, this blue surface is now occupied by a superimposed video, keyed into the area of blue. After the surprise of there being no other room beyond the door, the viewer is confronted with the paradox of seeing a different image on the video monitor than in reality. The background video which intrudes into the scene is a reconstruction of a visual hallucination experienced by the artist in Hamburg several months earlier, when inside one of James Turrell's perceptual cells. The superimposed video is a vertiginous, rising and falling view of a cityscape with ant-like figures bustling about, whilst fluorescent coloured plastic cutlery floats across the scene. The superimposed video can be seen on the monitor when the door is opened. |
