site / nonsite
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Site
Specific installation / Part II May
11 - June 2, 2002 |
| Goliath Visual Space is pleased to present, Thomas
Lail and Karen Mirza as they explore issues of SITE and NON-SITE. SITE/NON-SITE is a spatially auto-referential exhibition. It intends to transform a space (physically and mentally) and plot it (geographically and conceptually) onto its self. The site becomes altered but remains the focal point. Through this altered space the viewer can observe and experience the subtle changes, the non-site. NON-SITE is the displacement of the space, which permits the mundane and invisible to be seen dramatically. Thomas Lail, an installation artist, works with existing architectural spaces. Each piece is governed by its constructive process within a particular space. " … the works seek to intervene in the everyday use and regulation of familiar space and seeks to provide a fleeting view through the hidden, banal structures that shape our politics, our economies and our lives…" Thomas Lail For this exhibition Lail will use Goliath’s floor layout, wall studs and structure recreating it to scale, twice askew. While parts will be mimic the existing walls, other element may be missing or twisted, allowing views through the structures, revealing the original site. Film can be considered as linear, having a beginning and an end, but Karen Mirza bends film to work in a non-linear fashion. She films space and re-projects the filmic space into the space itself. What is now and what is then are nuanced in the same space. The viewer can be in the site and the non-site at the same time. Karen Mirza best explains her work when she states: " The architecture may be fixed, but the occupation, events and illumination within this fixed bounded space are constantly changing. This constant change is reflected in how we perceive and understand our environment." Karen Mirza This exhibition creates a unique situation, which is dependent on itself. The viewer will experience works that create a window on to a quasi state of nowhere, everywhere, and here. |
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