Black Floor

by Alex Hetherington, 1 Aug 2008

The small gallery at the space is now a black floor. Sturdy nylon and reels and reels of black gaffer tape. It’s like a Goth’s bedroom. The LED screen lights cast a red glow through the space, while two black curtains seal the space, making it dark and hot (which is how I remember the real Mineral Park, the ghost town in Arizona). The little red nameplates are almost all in place, like a list of solicitors in practice at a ‘firm’ or the occupants of an office building, it feels quite industrial, utilitarian. The gallery feels really serene this time, with Janie painstakingly organizing her installation, which has color and life, while also suggesting decay and passing. The LED screen as well as having the artists names and titles will probably have a list of Cocteau Twins songs, and some other random language thoughts, each letter keyed in individually.

Anyway I heard today some of the Falkirk video work from Meddle with the Devil screens in Bulgaria. I know nothing of this place, it feels very exotic. It’s part of a program called Videoholica.

Anyway it’s the weekend, it rained today liked the sky was the sea and by the time I got home it looked like I had thrown myself in the river.

I test the screening/installation/group show/show within a show on Monday, I shall then pass out the Paracetamol (which, interestingly, is made from coal tar.)

[Mineral Park Map #A

The Dexter Sinister TWA Clifford Irving Howard Hughes Orson Welles Dollar Synch: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Irving

TWA airlines operated and owned by Howard Hughes, flies into the United Airlines Constellation over the Grand Canyon, 1955. Clifford Irving wrote a faked autobiography on Howard Hughes and features in F for Fake by Orson Welles, his other film in the project The Trial has been transformed by Lewis Holleran’s video loop. Dexter Sinister (NY) screen F for Fake, Phantom Rosebuds and the Clifford Irving Show at New Langton Arts, San Francisco, the base of industrialist Robert Dollar’s empire. The feature film The Hoax, starring Richard Gere, relates the story of Irving’s faked autobiography. Mineral Park or How to engineer an artificial contrivance or How to write a fake autobiography of Robert Dollar.]