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KISS MY GLOW 22 January – 2 February 2002 A performing installation of 41 projected images and three and a half minutes of sound. Visitors to White Box are invited to ‘try the piece’, one at a time...to sit on the chair or couch, put on the headphones while slides advance roughly at five-second intervals, somewhat in tune with the complexity of each image as well as the viewer’s body language. Several languages are competing, through a re-arrangement of cinematic and installation conventions: As in cinema, a dynamic montage of visual and acoustic events is sequenced into a narrative, using a film projector and recorded voices and sound effects. The attempted narrative appears to suggest it to be an interview of a woman who is being visited at intervals by the ghost of her deceased boyfriend. Developing on various levels, the work is performed on the ‘immobile’ viewer, too busy taking it all in to move or consider until after the fact. At a technical level, Kiss My Glow is the simplest possible form of cinema: a sequence of images, with a soundtrack. In this case, the ‘synchronization’ of sound and image is intentionally imprecise. The timing of the slides is only approximate, the projectionist is counting off and/or interpreting the viewer’s gestures to time each slide to the sound. Furthermore, the contents of image and sound don’t agree: whereas the images carry a male character and the tape a female, they function in two different orders of time. Even though the images are described as re-constructions they speak in the present tense, while the tape tells the story in the past. The artist has stated “...At an ideological level, there are two projects: One, a challenge to critical truisms about “Otherness”, the paragon of Dead Ends... Two, a sample work – around for anyone who might resent confinement by narrative conventions presumed to be determined and over-determined by economies of signs or production: The medium is the message, so what. Media themselves are elastic, and malleable, whichever way you really want them to be. Finally the gear, and the situation, are in any case post-spectacular.” Special thanks to the Canadian Consulate General PRESS Show: Kiss My Glow Carl Skelton’s projected over-sexed biomorphic silhouettes at White Box raised more than just the covers. Skillfully rendered using simplistic computer graphics, it was presented in the form of a narrated slide show (something about a car crash and a love affair), which brings up issues about materiality and commodity since the physical item only truly exists in cyberspace. What one would purchase is a set of slides and a CD; the DNA of the art, so to speak: a blueprint of light.
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