Throughout my exploration of the outside the white cube space I became increasingly interested in these inanimate objects which dictate our every day lives, connecting us all at a certain moment in time. I am trying to portray a connection between the outside space and gallery space. By photographing a set of red lights the motion of stopping at these physically may be compared to the people stopping to look at the photo within the gallery space, it is the relationship between the people viewing and the spaces both outside and inside which I have tried to capture here in a single shot.I may be criticized for the lack of intervention within the site however I consider the lights themselves to be the intervention, a kind of readymade intervention which may go unnoticed or only realized subconsciously. The site is not necessarily specific however this is from a series of photographs exploring major junctions where the relationships take place in and around york city centre.
Any comments would be appreciated,
This is not the blurb btw.
Hi Tom
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting your image and comments. I think your rationale of coming to consider how objects of technology 'dictate' our lives is sound and has potential. I think you could make more of an intervention still so that your image expresses your relationship to the context without relying quite so much on your written rationale. There was a performance by Alastair MacLennan from 1977 where he walked over the course of a whole day "in a rectangle made by the pedestrian crossings at the traffic lights, following the light signals [...] without making any signs which would distinguish this activity as art [...]" "Alastair MacLennan: Is No" (1998) Bristol, Arnolfini, p.31. Could you researchother artists who've made work invlting traffic lights to include in your contextual research?