A Space Traversed with Signals
A Space Traversed with Signals | Installation View
A Space Traversed with Signals | Installation View, Opposite corridor
A Space Traversed with Signals | Installation View, Opposite corridor
A Space Traversed with Signals | Detail of Video Projection
All Photos by Peter D. Hartung
2004
Double Channel Video and Sound Installation
T shaped structure-2.15m X 1.5m X1.4m [entrance] 6m X 1.5m X 2.15m [video corridor] 1.5m X 1.3m [projections]
A Space Traversed with Signals examines the space between individuals in the act of conversation. The work questions not the spoken words, but rather the gaps and micro-gestures within the dialogue situation, which can be understood as occupying the space of partial unpredictability – or rather a quasi noise state. Within this installation the viewer is positioned in the midst of the corridor of communication between speakers, inhabiting the fluctuating noise space between the two individuals.
Biography
The contingency of normality is the focus of Reed’s artistic and textual practice. Normality can only be apprehended as a given reality through social consensus, and this consensus is inherently plastic, malleable. The play with the plasticity (potential) of the normal, both conceptually and materially, constitutes the foundation of her practice. Reed’s (often) obsessive works [...]