INDEED THERE WILL BE TIME: AN INVESTIGATION INTO TEMPORALITY, PLACE AND BEING IN EXPANDED INSTALLATION PRACTICE
Working in response to a disruptive, short-form media-centric contemporary culture, my honours project examines notions of being, place and time through moving images, collage, and expanded drawing.
Using a stationary camera, ambient soundscapes, rust-on-paper drawings, subtitles and spoken word fragments, quotidian scenes and banal moments are captured in a way that engages a sense of pause and self-reflection; focusing on subtle movements, the resting body and the passage of time. The research examines ideas of time and experience, creating a feeling that the world is drifting by, rejecting the rapid flicker of short-form video content found within social media platforms and creating a counter temporality that challenges neoliberal and late capitalism’s preoccupations with productivity and efficiency. The work seeks to make a safe space for pause, for wonder and reflection, where we might discover insights into the world around us. The video works are encountered as an installation alongside photographic collages and drawings and prints made with rust on paper, highlighting the impacts of time on materiality, and labour in their production.
