Perfect Moments

January, 2010

Perfect Moments took place at the Exchange Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall and was part of Transition 9.

The Transition series allows artists' to experiment with new work in a gallery environment over a period of four days. Because of the exhibition being in a state of flux the artists' can continually re-imagine or re-contextualise their work as much as they wish. The public are allowed to interact with the artist throughout the exhibition period.

This exhibition was an experimental attempt to create new perfect, or imperfect moments out of per-existing subjective perfect moments in film. Questioning the responsibility perfection has in our culture.

Some of these perfect moments remain untouched; others have been manipulated beyond recognition. In other areas old film clips join new film clips to give a stereo depiction of nostalgia vs. disappointment.   Once removed from their context these moments ceased to have emotional impact, they became incomplete, however something interesting happens once singled out and analysed.

<b>Day one:</b> Monitors are assembled into a line, all videos are synced.

Day one:

Monitors are assembled into a line, all videos are synced.

<b>Day three:</b> Monitors were edited down to a pair. Each monitor playing the same video piece but with a delay of one second between each piece, resulting in an echo and rhythms forming. The viewer sits on a deliberately uncomfortable stool wearing headphones. Sound is fed into a mixer so that the left monitor sound appears in the left headphone, and the right monitor sound is fed into the right headphone.

Day three:

Monitors were edited down to a pair. Each monitor playing the same video piece but with a delay of one second between each piece, resulting in an echo and rhythms forming.

The viewer sits on a deliberately uncomfortable stool wearing headphones.

Sound is fed into a mixer so that the left monitor sound appears in the left headphone, and the right monitor sound is fed into the right headphone.

<b>Day four:</b> All videos were complied onto a single DVD and projected in large scale onto the gallery wall.

Day four:

All videos were complied onto a single DVD and projected in large scale onto the gallery wall.