Dutch Rubber
2013
Apple monitor, IKEA Krister computer desk, cutouts
09'45 min
Installation view, Catapult Screensaver, MOTInternational Projects, London, 13 - 16 September 2013
For Catapult Screensaver the gallery is transformed into an office in which the screensaver, an algorithm backgrounding networked experience, is cast afore. Within the seemingly random, detached environment that the screensaver represents, a photographic collection is dislodged. The mise-en-scène of deskbound daydreams overlay unresolved, overlooked and bottled-up snippets of South African and British ‘Commonwealth’ history as enacted in the lightness of docu-comedies, period dramas, morning news inserts, coffee table books and blog posts. Through the static endurance performance Day4Night (flying in from the dark he nearly parted my hair) and an olfactory video installation comprising two works of found-footage – A plume of grass can be a reservoir and Dutch Rubber – the exhibition looks at notions of maximal productivity, cultural shame, digital non-neutrality, queer survivability, and imprisonment. The enduring preoccupation to experience controlled flight is positioned as emblematic of white privilege and escapism. Queries regarding the utopian possibilities for freedom and transgression simultaneously bring forth embarrassing failures resulting from the inescapable pull of history.
Clockwise: Day4Night (flying in from the dark he nearly parted my hair)
2013
Performance, with Clifford Allison and David Gillham
180'00 min
Dutch Rubber
2013
Apple monitor, IKEA Krister computer desk, cutouts
09'45 min
A plume of grass can be a reservoir
2013
Samsung monitor, Levv glass computer desk, Little Trees air-fresheners (Black Ice and Woven Whites)
07'15 min
Installation view, Catapult Screensaver, MOTInternational Projects, London, 13 - 16 September 2013
Day4Night (flying in from the dark he nearly parted my hair)
2013
Performance, with Clifford Allison and David Gillham
180'00 min
