Phantasmagoria
2024
The series includes:
Something (20240101-)
Inkjet print on matte paper
594cm x 29cm
Attracts Me Like a Record Player
Vinyl record and turntable on metal plinth, phone on tripod
You Stick Around Now It May Show
Camcorder, TV screen
Abbey Road Movies
Video with sound, 3’50” (projection, on loop)
Three Trinitron TVs, three DVD players, videos (silent, on loop)
Phantasmagoria (2024) is a series of prints, video and installation work that explores surveillance and spectacles through walking posture. Beginning on 1 January 2024, footage is taken daily from the Abbey Road Cam, a 24/7 webcam that captures the pedestrian crossing made famous by the Beatles’ album cover 55 years ago. Every day, pilgrims from all around the world follow the band’s footsteps and pose for a picture. This cultural icon activates the crossing to become a stage for “live” performances, whether it be normal walking, re-enactments or other impromptu moves. Pedestrian figures are extracted from the footage to form a body of work that illustrates the dynamics between voyeurism and exhibitionism, as well as the viewer’s fascination with the moving image. The series includes works entitled Something (20240101-), Attracts Me Like a Record Player, You Stick Around Now It May Show and Abbey Road Movies.
In Something (20240101-), a pedestrian figure is extracted each day to form a series of the walking posture, tracing back to Eadweard Muybridge’s photographic experiments in the late 19th century that look at human locomotion. Like Muybridge’s work, Attracts Me Like a Record Player explores the nuance between still and moving images. Frames of surveillance footage are printed on a vinyl record and are reanimated with the phone’s camera, making use of early film technology to create the illusion of motion.
In Abbey Road Movies, footage on different days is stacked, with the pedestrians’ movements being “choreographed” to form a collective performance. An archive of individual “performances” is shown on the video sculpture. Now, if You Stick Around the big TV screen, It May Show your walking posture as a spectacle.
Phantasmagoria (2024) is a series of prints, video and installation work that explores surveillance and spectacles through walking posture. Beginning on 1 January 2024, footage is taken daily from the Abbey Road Cam, a 24/7 webcam that captures the pedestrian crossing made famous by the Beatles’ album cover 55 years ago. Every day, pilgrims from all around the world follow the band’s footsteps and pose for a picture. This cultural icon activates the crossing to become a stage for “live” performances, whether it be normal walking, re-enactments or other impromptu moves. Pedestrian figures are extracted from the footage to form a body of work that illustrates the dynamics between voyeurism and exhibitionism, as well as the viewer’s fascination with the moving image. The series includes works entitled Something (20240101-), Attracts Me Like a Record Player, You Stick Around Now It May Show and Abbey Road Movies.
In Something (20240101-), a pedestrian figure is extracted each day to form a series of the walking posture, tracing back to Eadweard Muybridge’s photographic experiments in the late 19th century that look at human locomotion. Like Muybridge’s work, Attracts Me Like a Record Player explores the nuance between still and moving images. Frames of surveillance footage are printed on a vinyl record and are reanimated with the phone’s camera, making use of early film technology to create the illusion of motion.
In Abbey Road Movies, footage on different days is stacked, with the pedestrians’ movements being “choreographed” to form a collective performance. An archive of individual “performances” is shown on the video sculpture. Now, if You Stick Around the big TV screen, It May Show your walking posture as a spectacle.
Phantasmagoria
2024
The series includes:
Something (20240101-)
Inkjet print on matte paper
594cm x 29cm
Attracts Me Like a Record Player
Vinyl record and turntable on metal plinth, phone on tripod
You Stick Around Now It May Show
Camcorder, TV screen
Abbey Road Movies
Video with sound, 3’50” (projection, on loop)
Three Trinitron TVs, three DVD players, videos (silent, on loop)
Phantasmagoria (2024) is a series of prints, video and installation work that explores surveillance and spectacles through walking posture. Beginning on 1 January 2024, footage is taken daily from the Abbey Road Cam, a 24/7 webcam that captures the pedestrian crossing made famous by the Beatles’ album cover 55 years ago. Every day, pilgrims from all around the world follow the band’s footsteps and pose for a picture. This cultural icon activates the crossing to become a stage for “live” performances, whether it be normal walking, re-enactments or other impromptu moves. Pedestrian figures are extracted from the footage to form a body of work that illustrates the dynamics between voyeurism and exhibitionism, as well as the viewer’s fascination with the moving image. The series includes works entitled Something (20240101-), Attracts Me Like a Record Player, You Stick Around Now It May Show and Abbey Road Movies.
In Something (20240101-), a pedestrian figure is extracted each day to form a series of the walking posture, tracing back to Eadweard Muybridge’s photographic experiments in the late 19th century that look at human locomotion. Like Muybridge’s work, Attracts Me Like a Record Player explores the nuance between still and moving images. Frames of surveillance footage are printed on a vinyl record and are reanimated with the phone’s camera, making use of early film technology to create the illusion of motion.
In Abbey Road Movies, footage on different days is stacked, with the pedestrians’ movements being “choreographed” to form a collective performance. An archive of individual “performances” is shown on the video sculpture. Now, if You Stick Around the big TV screen, It May Show your walking posture as a spectacle.
Phantasmagoria (2024) is a series of prints, video and installation work that explores surveillance and spectacles through walking posture. Beginning on 1 January 2024, footage is taken daily from the Abbey Road Cam, a 24/7 webcam that captures the pedestrian crossing made famous by the Beatles’ album cover 55 years ago. Every day, pilgrims from all around the world follow the band’s footsteps and pose for a picture. This cultural icon activates the crossing to become a stage for “live” performances, whether it be normal walking, re-enactments or other impromptu moves. Pedestrian figures are extracted from the footage to form a body of work that illustrates the dynamics between voyeurism and exhibitionism, as well as the viewer’s fascination with the moving image. The series includes works entitled Something (20240101-), Attracts Me Like a Record Player, You Stick Around Now It May Show and Abbey Road Movies.
In Something (20240101-), a pedestrian figure is extracted each day to form a series of the walking posture, tracing back to Eadweard Muybridge’s photographic experiments in the late 19th century that look at human locomotion. Like Muybridge’s work, Attracts Me Like a Record Player explores the nuance between still and moving images. Frames of surveillance footage are printed on a vinyl record and are reanimated with the phone’s camera, making use of early film technology to create the illusion of motion.
In Abbey Road Movies, footage on different days is stacked, with the pedestrians’ movements being “choreographed” to form a collective performance. An archive of individual “performances” is shown on the video sculpture. Now, if You Stick Around the big TV screen, It May Show your walking posture as a spectacle.