Video and Sculptural installation. 2013.
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In Problems of Explaining a Thunk thought, time and media are played out in a video and sculpture installation where ideas and experience collapse in on themselves.
It explores the limitations of media and confronts perceptions of time through examining the chronological structures within moving image and other media formats.
Central to the work is a narrative film in which a character attempts to grasp and express a thought at the limits of their comprehension. We see them journey from their everyday surroundings to a hinterland where thresholds collapse into a hybrid space.
Here we are presented with a second film – a reworking of the original narrative, reconstructed frame by frame (by volume). It flickers rapidly across the protagonist’s journey building slowly to a crescendo of rhythmic sound, image and realisation.
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First presented in a solo exhibition at Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia, 2013. Filmed in Yalgorup National Park, AUS; Dungeness, UK; and London, UK.
Thanks to Sam Gillies, SKoT MacDonald, Joe Clarke, Simon Terrill, Mark Robertson, Stu Bannister, Luke Drozd & Ric Spencer for all the support in making this work.
Commissioned by Fremantle Arts Centre, Australia.
Funded by Arts Council England & Fremantle Arts Centre.
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Exhibitions:
The Problems of Explaining a Thunk, Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth, WA, AUS. 2013.
SUMM, Norman Rea Gallery, York, UK. 2013. (with Joe Clarke).
A Hypertrophied Eye, NewBridge Project Space, Newcastle, UK. 2014.
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WARNING: Sections of the videos contain flashing imagery
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Problems of Explaining a Thunk (part 1). HD Video. 17:16 mins. 2013
Excerpt from Problems of Explaining a Thunk (part 2 - restructured by amplitude). HD Video. 17:16 mins. 2013
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