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'In a sense, the work is un-locatable; its point of origin is continually shifting.'

Take Me There : Bring Me Back

Nancy Mauro-Flude

2006

Launch Take Me There : Bring Me Back

  • Media related
  • Digital Media
  • Webcam transmission
  • Ephemeral
  • Projection with embedded text
  • Methodology
  • Performative,
  • Live recording
  • Gallery installation>
  • Networked
  • Projected (frontal)
  • Live Web cast projection with performative text
  • Previously exhibited or screened
  • Earlier iteration of related work Tradestream exhibited in SURFACE, April-May 2005 (CAST Tasmania)
  • Provenance
  • Presented with permission, consent or agreement of the artist.

Artist Statement

I embedd the formal ‘documenary real time’ affect the webcam supposes, with ficitonal/ subjective elements and location changes.

A live video feed from the room where I often sleep captures the canal outside the window, a well-traversed trade route into Amsterdam. A live web cam sequences at 6 sec time intervals and transmits this via the Internet, which opens up as a portal, a projection site in Hobart. A counter at the right bottom marks the date and time. On the left, are personal aphorisms. Communications from elsewhere – the other side of consciousness, or the grave. I ask the viewer to consider the detail in a scene that might otherwise be consumed in a momentary glance; the light, the mood of the water, the position of the birds, the trash.

The 6 sec. incremental changes are perceptible, revealed through changes of the reloading frame. Somewhere inbetween the image peel a cargo boat on the canal vanishes. The next frame we may only see its wake. At times, the canal is completely still. A dark body of water. Or hours there is nothing happening and suddenly two birds are caught in mid flight.

Because the work is Live it calls into question where the ‘object’
actually is – is it located at the server, on site in Hobart? Or in-between, the interstices of the world? In a sense, the work is un-locatable; its point of origin is continually shifting. If you can tell me where it is, I would say it is dead.