Video

 

The Kiss - 2007

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2 Channel DVD sculpture: 15 minute loop, colour, silent
Two 13" CRT televisions, DVD player, RF modulator, splitter, RCA cable & 2 coaxial cables.
Custom made plinth: 55" x 22" x 14"
Edition of 3 & 1 AP (3/4 private collections)

Part of the Glow Video Series in which I use television content, in this case a hard core porn movie, as a simple source material for reflected light installations.
The light source for this work was created by simply recording the cast light of a gang bang scene in a hard core porn film as it bathed my apartment wall while viewing. No image or sound was captured only the reflected light. The porn genre tends to be fairly routine and pragmatic in terms of editing, therefore the resulting glow is steady and rhythmic with few camera changes but with quickening pulses of colour...mainly pinks, oranges and red hues.

exhibition history>
2007 Justina M Barnicke Gallery, Hart House (Toronto ON); 2007 Power Plant -Auction (Toronto ON); 2008 Cambridge Galleries (Cambridge ON); 2008 Platform Gallery (Seattle WA); 2008 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery (Halifax NS); 2008 Lawrence Eng Gallery (Vancouver BC); 2008 Vox Gallery (Montreal); 2008 Wynick-Tuck Gallery (Toronto ON); 2008 Aqua Miami Art Fair w/ Platform Gallery (Miami, FL); 2009 California Museum of Photography (Riverside CA); 2009 Bass Museum (Miami FL); 2010 The Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto ON); 2011 Art Gallery of Windsor (Windsor ON);