WHITE OUT
dvd video 2002
White Out is a fifteen minute video on dvd, with sound mixed by Robert Worby, for display as projection or on a large flat screen monitor. White Out was first shown as part of the installation “I’d Like To Tell You About Some PLaces I Think I MIght Have Been To Once” in the exhibition Dream vs. Reality at Gallery F15, Alby, Moss in 2002. The video was subsequently shown at The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, in the exhibition Where Am I Now? and was featured in the UK-Canada video exhibition at South London Gallery in 2003.
White Out is one of several video and photographic works looking at the architectural space of the contemporary city; the relationship between the (anonymous) human figure and the urban landscape; the flow of people, traffic, information and commodities through urban space. Most of the images in White Out are of human bodies reflected in the high-gloss surfaces of corporate buildings in Manhattan and most are shown in extreme slow motion so that they take on a quality something akin to a “melting photograph” rather than a cinematic moving image. The sound to the video is a mixture of white (or pink) noise and fragments of ambient sound from urban environments. This is one of a number of works for which Robert Worby has contributed sound. Others include “60 Minutes In No Particular Order”, “Grey” and “The Go, No Go Detector”.
See essay on White Out by curator Andrea Kroksnes.
