What happened on New Year's Eve 1980/81?
"…the installation as
a cinematic experience—activating a cognitive process inherent to cinema
outside the parameters of its traditional aspects. Although the methodology of
this could be explicated, it is perhaps more simply said that “you know it when
you see it,” and better still, “you know it when you experience it.” Utilizing
unstable elements of representational associations (again, first as evidence,
alternating perhaps as metaphor), like a dishevelled room, disparate sounds and
music, often unrecognizable “ready-mades” and baroque (in this sense, exposing
the luxurious intricacy of decimation from the “modern”) architectural
interventions, the works immediately place the spectator within a parallel
frame of existence…"
Arfus Greenwood, REWRITE the SCRIPT (Lost, Forgotten and Presupposed
by Arfus Greenwood) http://post.thing.net/node/2349, New York October 2008
dmx controlled location
3'26" loop, 8 channel audio, 12 channel light
The House at Nyehaus New York, curated by Adina Popescu, Part One November 2008