Something a little different for you with this Pedestal entry. Matthew Stanners, a Manchester based projection artist will be exhibiting his installation, Open later this month please read on and pop down to see it.
Open is the product of research experimenting with notions of light and motion and the forms of projection and sculpture as a means of expressing and projecting fragments of experience from our daily lives. Open has a unique interface that allows these fragments to be relived by others and breathe life again in a new space.
The sculpture itself is the focal point of the work. Not only does it disperse light around the space, but it also reflects the space and the audience that are being immersed in the light as well. The sculpture is an active artifice of the installation, taking the action of giving light as its own, whilst all the while reflecting the audience at the centre of everything. The work illustrates a desire to share experience through a phenomenological understanding of one another using Open as an interface to communicate and so re-experience moments in a controlled and shared space.
Open deals with film in its projected form by placing more emphasis on the light that is cast than the imagery itself. By placing the sculpture at the heart of the visual experience the audience’s attention is drawn away from the visual content and towards the manner in which it interacts with the sculpture. While traditional cinema is essentially escapist, Open is both a figuratively and literally reflective experience in that the audience is necessarily at the heart of it. The experience itself is a spectacle that draws audience, sculpture and space into one uniformed entity. Whilst Open creates an aesthetically intriguing and beautiful spectacle, it also emphasis a key fact that film still has many more avenues to be explored and so therefore experienced. Click here to see a short video preview of the installation.
This installation will be accessible to the public during the BlankExpression exhibition between the 27th of January and the 14th of February. If your interested in seeing please check the link and head down to BlankSpace.
If you have any further questions regarding this project, Matthew can be contacted on:
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