INSTALLATIONS
| Robert Bubp This installation by Wichita, Kansas artist Robert Bubp is a series of rusted steel map paintings gradually depicting Tulsa's historical growth and population shifts, cinder blocks and site earth segmenting the gallery space, and a single-channel DVD projection of historical images. As viewers move through the space a sense of culmination and segmentation will become apparent, concluding in the video projection tracing 'lost' histories. Exhibit opens Thursday, October 2, 5:00-6:30pm and continues through October 31. Alexandre Hogue Gallery, Phillips Hall, University of Tulsa, 2935 E. 5th St. No Charge. Mr. Bubp will be giving a slide/lecture about his work just before the opening at 4:00pm in the School of Art, Art History Room on 2nd floor and will show past & present slides of his other works in light of the concepts of "heterotopias" (from Foucault) and "non-spaces" (Robert Smithson)--construction sites (and others) as areas in transition, repressed by mainstream culture.
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Tanya Synar The Sea Installation Project came out of developing an intimate relationship with the sea over the course of time. Yearly pilgrimages to the rugged Pacific Northwest coastline paved the way for in-depth exploration of how a particular place or force in the landscape can mediate a profound psychological and sensorial experience. Powerful and transformative, the sea symbolically situates futility alongside serenity. Whether in a mythological or real sense, the sea impresses awe and wonderment upon the human psyche. There is always the element of risk involved, as it is impersonal and contains the power to destroy in seconds. It is this vast and sublime force of nature that serves as a conduit to the internal mechanism of gauging our perceptual shifts that fascinates me. Whether consciously or subconsciously, the possibility presents itself to observe how it is that we perceive. The familiar world we construct cracks open to expose an external and/or internal "other". In the Sea Installation Project, I have employed visual and sensorial mechanisms to isolate and reinvent a sea experience. The video projection shifts from a short wide angle image to a close up of rolling swells that periodically and almost imperceptibly shift from forward to reverse. Audio recordings of the sea add dimension to the experience with sounds of crashing waves and rhythmic sighing. In a continuous cycle, water flows between a double layered plastic curtain into a trough that runs the entire length of the curtain ³walls². The inner space created by the walls "immerse" the viewer in a watery environment. The atmosphere is moist and cool and activated by the multi-dimensional sound of water flowing down the curtain walls and the recorded crashing ebb and flow of the sea played through suspended audio speakers. Source Crossing is an observation of water and its relationship to light and movement. I am interested in how phenomenological properties of water, such as waves that produce pattern and repetition, can crossover into perceptual cognition. Whether in the realm of psychology or physics, perceptual shifts occur when other forces interject a random element upon that which governs pattern and structure. Rhythmic movement exists unique in time by means of interruption. In the case of water, the interruption could be many things, such as a partially immersed log or a rocky shoreline. As in human nature, our tendency is to search for pattern to situate ourselves in the world. I chose to make this artwork silent since the sound is already there visually. The center monitor provides a mode of departure. After several minutes, the image slowly becomes obscured by the progressing rainfall and fades out into nothingness; an observation of a phenomenon passing though time. |
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