Multimedia Drawing Installations
“Space is a doubt: I have constantly to mark it, to designate it. It’s never mine, never given to me, I have to conquer it.” Georges Perec
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 walls and objects 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. 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 questions ownership of these places, illustrating human interaction with space and alternative methods of placemaking. After several successful 2D installations in Europe and the UK this work has recently been developed into 3D. Presented in a live context, the moment of interaction is a direct focus in this work and using a range of research strategies it has been identified that environmental interactivity is an important element that allows us to feel ‘at home’ in our cities. For this reason, ways to include audiences directly in the work are now being explored and the public participation project This Belongs To was recently launched in which contributors use light and shadows to temporarily claim spaces. Further developments include investigations into responsive technologies in producing installed environments or objects that move the work out of the gallery space and into the streets. These objects will allow users to interact with public spaces in a playful way while encouraging engagement with the issue of public ownership. Current enquiries into developmental possibilities were recently published as part of the TINT Arts Lab first season of online residencies and can continue to be followed on the Mouse in Progress pages of this site.
Latest developments in interactive installation work will be exhibited at Blacked Out, a group show of nine artists exploring light in a blacked out, underground, urban space. Using the medium of video, neon, drawing, sculpture, photography and light installation, the show examines the aesthetics and interplay of light in relation to contemporary practice.
Open Daily 21st - 28th August, 13.00 - 18.30.
ARCH 897, Holyrood Street, London, SE1 2EL
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