User:Themsen/McCall Review Text (500wrd)
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Even though the exhibition wasn't tactile (in essence) it still made one question the 'tactility' of social borders. The exhibition made me consider the eloquence with which borders can be invoked. The smoke of each installation made the illusion of tactility very real when it met the ray, and a liquid-like surface began to stream in the wake of the rays. The beauty of this coming-together of two mediums created (especially in the cone of light) a "going towards the light" lightscape. The quietness which each partipant upheld in the exhibition also added to this otherwordly feeling, where it was the people and the lightshow in focus. The body and light, seemed to be the main theme of the light-show. Perhaps, because of the artist's, reference to movie projectors the exploration of bodies and light where one of the intentions with this exhibition. Stepping from the reasonably lit white exhibition room to the dark entrance of the installation room heightened the feeling of leaving one's 'comfort-bubble' in order to explore ideas stripped down to art-installations. The mere materiality of light sought me to question the post-constructivist concept of a networked, hence bordered global world; where the light of the optic fibre cables rain supreme; and the invisible yet effective light of the satellites and wifi modems allow a part of us to flow, like smoke, across the surface of the world.
Thoughts on my own work and McCall's Masterclass
- Virtual and Social Borders
- Presentation of Projector and Television