The confines of the situation, both aesthetic and environmental, explores an inherent tension in the act of perception and representation.
CONFINES
1975
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DIAGRAMATIC REPRESENTATION OF THE FILM INSTALLATION
PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION OF THE FILM PERFORMANCE
FILM STILL EXTRACTED FROM FILM
PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION OF THE FILM INSTALLATION
Description
Filmed in 1975 and presented as an installation at the John Gibson Gallery in New York City in 1978. Confines, consists of a square table whose surface doubles as a projection screen for a looped single cassette film shot in super 8. The image projected onto the 3’ x 3’ table surface is that of the same table surface at the same scale.
The title suggests a word play on being confined and the confinement of an image by its frame. The repeated looping of the projected image further emphasizes the projection as a phenomenal carrier of light information.