GAP / METACORNER / RETROFIT 2009

Exhibition

By:Mark Brown
GAP/METACORNER/RETROFIT 2009 was a site-specific installation exhibitied in Critical Fixtures at RMIT Gallery Melbourne Australia in 2009. This work continued a series of previous works loosely described as 'Critical Fixtures'. Fixed within a corner, the LCD screen and speakers functioned as an audio-visual interface between the actual gallery space and an unseen ancillary space. The image of a tiled, paint spattered corner in a banal functional space was transmitted via a live wireless CCTV camera feed from an adjoining paint room. Prone to interference by transmissions over a 2.4 GHZ bandwidth, the video signal was intentionally degraded by interference ‘specific’ to the location. The viewer's physical presence further contributed to the degradation of the image as their movement modulated the static on screen. The title of the piece also referred to the idea of ‘retro-fitting‘- installing additional fixtures to ‘upgrade’ existing hardware systems. Florescent light fittings illuminated the 'actual' corner filling the strange gap between the floating false gallery walls. Inspired by the corner constructions of Kasimir Malevich & Vladimir Tatlin, the light installations of Dan Flavin and by conceptual artist William Anastasi’s Free Will 1968, the gallery corner was utilised, framed and filled by the work, activating the extremities of the space of display.
Installation
Title:GAP / METACORNER / RETROFIT 2009
Material:LCD screen, audio speakers, Fluorescent light fittings, CCTV camera, microphones, guitar FX unit
Size:Dimensions Variable
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