Short blurb for Black Polaroid Project
“ I am neither a painter a writer nor a maker of, I am but a recorder ”
(Author unknown)
Here the viewer is confronted with one single Polaroid film that has been reversed showing only the back (a black square) and a free hanging micro cassette-recorder.
With the image in mind, the viewer is asked to take the micro cassette in hand press record and explain what it is that they see within the image and then rewind the cassette and place it back on the hook.
This sets up a situation were the viewers and the image are placed in a series of conversions that have been recorded but only for a short moment in time.
And so it is here the audio takes a loose form of sorts recording the physical structure of language, by way of the sounds that resonate from that moment in time. When struck by the various tones and pitches multiple intersections are developed and / or erased thus overlapping and constructing a new temporary relationship and description of the image.
Event Participation
2008
First New Zealand participant - 3rd 'Arhipelag' International Contemporary Arts Festival between Nova Gorcia (Slovenia) and Gorizi (Italy)
2007
First New Zealand participant - Szpliman award, Berlin, Germany
Live temporary public intreaction in Auckland, New Plymouth and Wellington
