Install

by Alex Hetherington, 4 Aug 2008

The show is beginning to materialize: I like Janie’s self-generating slides, which create dazzling images in the space. Meanwhile I watched Lewis’ video play alongside backward baseball and a view around Robert Dollar’s mansion. We sought more TVs and have been generously given a set of four by the wonderful people at StreetLevel in Glasgow. Thank you Team StreetLevel. I also watched the ‘female’ and ‘male’ voice describing the plane collision over the Grand Canyon in 1956 and later the footage I shot in Arizona, which somehow becomes really moving by this point and then some guy in leathers appears and make it all very funny and oddly sexualized. Then it’s me SINGING the Cocteau Twins, while their titles scroll along on the LED, with special mention of Sugar Hiccup, a show from Tramway from years ago that featured Sam Samore, Elizabeth Ballet and Richard Wright and a song from the Twins. The two extra TVs appear in the morning and I can report back on this experiment.

The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics a review I wrote for Interface an Magazine to appear in print in their September edition: this was a show from Yerba Buena in San Francisco. You can read the piece online already at Interface or wait for the magazine to appear in store.

More, inevitably, soon.

I watched the reels yesterday and have made some changes to the running order, so am replacing three of the DVDs, Anne Colvin will play now on an extended loop, as will the footage from the Grand Canyon, Lewis’ video has a second loop and there is now a new soundtrack hitting off at the 40 minute mark.

I think I will add the Cocteau Twins images (which are NOW black taped to the wall and makes reference to Jim Lambie); I’ll spend the day thinking about the layout, it’s much more relaxing than I had envisaged, and when things stop it’s quite eerie. Relaxed and eerie? Is this possible? Stay tuned TV fans.

(The option to put a sleeping bag in the space, still exists, I was thinking of how the Cocteau Twins are sometimes described – “dream pop” (I can’t think of a less apt description, but it has a kind of tackiness about it)). Anyway the space also has this campside feeling to it (Campfire Headphase, to reference another Scottish electronica band). I am the King of Reference.