Like History, Like Geography
Like History, Like Geography
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Outcomes and eventualities. Event dualities, bipolar actions, switching, digital, binary. When you’re on you’re on and when you’re off you’re off, but when you are only halfway between you seem to be nowhere at all. Or in an image of nowhere. Or in an image of somewhere. Interpolate to animate. A radical reconstruction of the image to achieve abstraction. Image becomes notional space, its history, its geography. Inhabit this notional space. Be part of it. Be a shadow projected into it. A dark trace in a white space. White noise in a white room, white space in white time, white light and white heat, shimmering, a mirage, time filtered, refracted, broken down. Spectral time, time delayed, encoded, encrypted. An echo of time reverberating through a reflection of space, a projection of space, a proposition of space, an illusion of space etched on the screen of time. History as projection, future and past colliding at the surface of the screen of the present. Record the impact, scan it, track the motion of the fragments as they are scattered outward and onward. Call it debris, call it culture, call it art, call it collective memory. Call it fields and frames, bits and bytes of encoded memory. It’s a struggle to gain real time over delayed time, relocated time, trans-located time. The task is to construct or to constitute a space-in-time elaborated as an architecture of sound and image. Transmittable spaces, habitable images, a residence for the memorabilia of history and geography, a fourth generation third space. Shimmering monuments, flickering ruins. Cinema as disembodied architecture and television as architectural metaphor.