| The Ecstasy of Small Change |
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The imagery projected from the panoptical TV tower assumes the tone of a nature documentary about the life of the leftover, the exhausted object, scrap. The resonance of the audile/tactile relationship is emphasized in the synaesthetic techniques used to produce image and sound. This resonance in a formal play of spatial relationships invites the viewer to perceive or construct meaning within the implied narrative (cinema forms mimicked) when there is none explicit. The Ecstasy of Small Change is a Fleabotics work. A form of hallucination activated by the televisual apparatus. Within Fleabotics, an elastic interchange between individual and setting is achieved by manipulating three dimensional space within the two dimensional form of video. Amplifying the significance of the junk, a story is generated by the continuous recombining elements of the micro assemblages, fielding that which comes around does go aground. Ecstasy of Small Change The TV tower projected wall filling images from each of five tvobscuras. These synchonized videotapes formed a 270 degree panorama in the room with each channel of video having its own associated audio. The images and sounds blended creating a continual surrounding fleabotic episode. The detritus on the floor, the subjects of the episode only became visible after long minutes in the darkened room. Given the absence of light and the softness of the projections the top images required an 8 minute exposure to document on film. The central tv tower is of variable height, composed of tvobscuras - televisions as projection devices, a panopticon pulled inside out. The room dimensions were 20' square with a ceiling approximately 9' high. The room was descended into via a darkened stairway, arrival signalled by the sponginess of the prepared floor surface. The episode played continuously, looping every 7 minutes. |
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