Multimedia Drawing Installations
Glittermouse has recently been developing a new approach to drawing by employing a combination of digital and traditional media in live installations. These are made by projecting digital images on to wall mounted paper then using drawing methods to interact with the projected images. Though photographic outcomes and the resulting drawing remain as documentation, the focus of the work is the live creation, where the act of drawing becomes a performance and the process is inherent within the display.
In a live context, the work comprises of a projection of gradually changing photographic images, pixel and vector graphics edited with digital video. These are traced around, drawn over, collaged into and painted on throughout the duration of the installation, allowing the piece to grow organically across the page. As different projected images fade in and out, the marks of the drawing remain to capture moments when the images were projected. As images return, sections of drawing are realigned with the original projection or become populated by moving image.
The work depicts the built environment layered with natural objects and sounds found within it and aims to explore our experience of cities, using visual representation to question how our interaction with urban space layers meaning over places and artefacts which exist outside of imposed systems of physical and social order. Drawing on the writings of Michel De Certeau and Marc Auge, the work uses the contrast between still and moving image to explore notions of Place and Space, focusing on the duality of transience and permanence in an urban environment. In doing so, it also references to contrast between the meticulously planned and the delightfully unexpected which exists at the boundary between ‘natural’ and ‘artificial’. As the outcome and process crosses the divide between traditional and digital imaging it questions and blurs the point at which the human habitat and our activities within it become extracted from nature and apparently elevated into an advanced state perceived to be unique to Homo sapiens. This layering of images and techniques reflects that within the environment both physically and on a human level; we layer our lives, living in close proximity to one another yet never meeting, simultaneously fulfilling many roles in our work and personal lives, remaining contained within structures both social and physical and finding ourselves less able to interact with our overwhelming environment.
After several successful installations in Europe and the UK this work is now being developed into 3D.
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Alternative Party
Helsinki, October 2009
Norvun Sunday
Next installation:
March 28th at The Roadhouse, Manchester
