Reflectance
The ratio of the total amount of radiation, as of light, reflected by a surface to the total amount of radiation incident on the surface.NARRATIVE STRUCTURES
ALTERNATE MEANS OF EXPERIENCING IMAGES
REPORTAGE
2019
Slide projection installation, 3 works, 5 slide projectors containing 360 slides.
1. Narrative Structures
Dual slide projection
Narrative Structures acts as a sequence of images displayed with text. The images are street scenes taken in Dublin and London. The text has two aspects, a narrative written by the artist, spliced in with texts exploring narratology. The work acts both as a narrative and an exploration of how stories are created.
This work examines what a narrative is, while also at some points performing as a narrative. Parts of this text derive from texts on narratology, namely Gerald Price and Mieke Bal. The use of street photography as a medium of the 20th century counterbalances the medium of slide projection in the work’s dialogue with obsolescence. It also exists in as a text/image sequence that overlaps and interelates, something that we automatically do as viewers - correlate text and image, read them together. At times the sequencing plays with that, the relationship between the text and image is non decipherable while in others it is explicit.
Dual slide projection
Narrative Structures acts as a sequence of images displayed with text. The images are street scenes taken in Dublin and London. The text has two aspects, a narrative written by the artist, spliced in with texts exploring narratology. The work acts both as a narrative and an exploration of how stories are created.
This work examines what a narrative is, while also at some points performing as a narrative. Parts of this text derive from texts on narratology, namely Gerald Price and Mieke Bal. The use of street photography as a medium of the 20th century counterbalances the medium of slide projection in the work’s dialogue with obsolescence. It also exists in as a text/image sequence that overlaps and interelates, something that we automatically do as viewers - correlate text and image, read them together. At times the sequencing plays with that, the relationship between the text and image is non decipherable while in others it is explicit.
2. Alternate Means of Experiencing Images
Dual slide projection (corner)
The text slides in this work are based off Tom Gunning's text The Cinema of Attraction[s]: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde. Gunning references Hale's Tours of the World which were an attraction at amusement parks and similar venues in the early 20th Century. They were specially constructed spaces designed to simulate a railway journey. The accompanying images pay homage to this, as well as other moments in early filmmaking. To quote Gunning,The Cinema of Attractions is "a cinema that displays its visibility, willing to rupture a self-enclosed fictional world for a chance to solicit the attention of the spectator." Essentially instead of the viewer focusing on the narrative, the films from cinema of attractions encourage the audiences to remain aware of the act of looking, the impulse and excitement from the image.
Dual slide projection (corner)
The text slides in this work are based off Tom Gunning's text The Cinema of Attraction[s]: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde. Gunning references Hale's Tours of the World which were an attraction at amusement parks and similar venues in the early 20th Century. They were specially constructed spaces designed to simulate a railway journey. The accompanying images pay homage to this, as well as other moments in early filmmaking. To quote Gunning,The Cinema of Attractions is "a cinema that displays its visibility, willing to rupture a self-enclosed fictional world for a chance to solicit the attention of the spectator." Essentially instead of the viewer focusing on the narrative, the films from cinema of attractions encourage the audiences to remain aware of the act of looking, the impulse and excitement from the image.
Slide projection
This smaller scale work simply consists of diagram slide followed by colour slide. The diagrams refer to their form, showing diagrams of the internal structure of cameras, projectors and the chemical structure of black and white negatives and colour transparency film. The colours used reference the various colours used throughout the history of the development of the colour print. All the works and the structures that the projectors sit on all work to expose artifice, recognizing their own form and content, whereas this screen in being an illusionary device, counteracts this while also emphasising it. This work also plays with the slide projectors use as an educational medium, re-performing a previous function.
Exhibited
2019 TUD, Dublin
2019 Lismore Castle Arts (Reportage)
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