27/8/2004
Tina Gonsalves
ArtSway, Sway
Somewhere in Between: Studies in Translocation. An exhibition of new work by Australian based artist.
Somewhere in Between: Studies in Translocation
Reception for the artist, Saturday 28 August 2004, 2-4pm
Artist Talk, Saturday 28 August 2004, 3:30pm
ArtSway presents an exhibition of new work by Australian based artist Tina Gonsalves. Somewhere in Between: Studies in Translocation is a video exploration of seascapes and the engagement with the transient and evanescent nature of travel. The work is formed by the extensive journeys undertaken by the artist over the last few years captured on video. These installations explore shifting realities, the nature of intimacy, and an engagement with time and distances. The footage is used as metaphors for emotional spaces, as each of the installations and seven single channel video works investigate the parameters of time and space and their physical and emotional effect on people. This creates an atmosphere that is an intensified, illusory version of reality.
In the main gallery, a three channel video installation explores shifts of reality. Using the real world as a point of departure we are presented with visions of horizons taken during a six week trans-atlantic sail from the Cape Verdes to the Caribbean. These visions are then broken down and whittled away, reconfigured to suggest another reality. They are manipulated such that the details become indistinct, leaving them barely discernable as seascapes. These revisions reflect our own tenuous hold on memory and the impact our emotional state can have on the past and the present.
Tina was artist in residence during May and June 04 as part of a residency supported by the Regional Arts Lottery Programme through Arts Council England.
CLUTCH - Medulla Intimata: responsive digital video jewellery project
Performances ‘Medulla Intimata’, a subtle public intervention with responsive video jewellery.
Banff Centre, Canada, 28 July-8 August
International Symposium of Electronic Arts, Tallinn, Estonia, 17 August
ArtSway, Hampshire UK: Saturday 28 August, 2-4pm;
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK, September.
Tina Gonsalves and Tom Donaldson, founders of Clutch (www.thisisclutch.com) have created ‘Medulla Intimata’, video responsive jewellery. While wearing the jewellery, software monitors the tone and intonation in the wearer’s vioce. These measurements help the software select video sequences appropriate to the emotional state of the wearer. Once selected, the appropriate piece of video is broadcast to the jewellery using wi-fi technology in real time. This work aims to extend the traditions of video portraiture through embedding in a worn object of self-expression, namely a necklace, a portrait continuously subject to the wearer’s emotional state. It subverts straight-forward self expression by disclosing intimate details of the wearer, providing an interperetive rather than a representational commentary. As conversations become more intimate, the jewlellery acts less like a sheild and more as a wound. The overall character and content of the piece and the video content reflects the overall character and content of the wearer and thus portrays a true living portrait.
Medulla Intimata is a co-production with The Banff New Media Institute, CANADA, and supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Queensland and ArtSway.
In the image: 'Leaving', 2.19 minutes single channel video, 2004.
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