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in+the+blink+of+an+eye. Exhibition (2020 : Geelong, Victoria)Publisher
Digital Innovation Festival & Creative GeelongLocation
Third Space Gallery + DigitalPlace of publication
Geelong, Vic.Start date
2020-08-21End date
2020-09-04Language
engNotes
Today, during Covid, 'terror sublime' could be thought of as held within the light of screens where we search for something and unwittingly embark on an AI curated journey through a labyrinth of disasters that often sit on the sides of an article or video. The screen is taking us into unintentional wormholes. While screen light seduces us into new territories laden with disaster, it reveals what we cannot unsee. Tonya and Annie’s screens are a studied reflection on ‘sublime isolation’ then and now. Tonya’s digital triptych presents fragments of food waste grown and materially cultivated from the beginning of Covid 19’s emergence in Australia around February 2020. Searching eagerly for some form for metaphysical evolution, in quarantine Tonya’s scenes of mould have been cultivated as a by-product of lived experience pre-Covid. However, they continue through our isolation. Sparked by tiny specks of eaten matter, which are fed, and watered this organic growth develops each day transforming at its own pace. The organic has visually formed into an abstract and unique living 3D sculpture. The work continues to develop, and the digital triptych Sublime, 1, 2, and 3, present the viewer with snapshots the organic form as graphic, and chaotic. The work urges an in-progress open-ended dialogue on isolation in the time of Covid, coupled with notions of documenting a life ‘in-between’. The digital triptych theoretically operates on a metaphoric level as well as with a documentary mode. A comment on our lived but quiet stationary presence juxtaposed with our silent yet hauntingly beautiful growing encounters the mould represents yet dangerously questions both the beauty of isolation and the terror sublime. https://www.thirdspacedigital.online/1Recognition, awards & prizes
Awarded 4000$ in (Innovation) grant funding from the Digital Innovation Festival, 2020.Research statement
Background The researchers take up E Burke’s theorisation of ‘terror sublime’ – where the sublime can invoke a sense of terror – as a way to understand our relationship to screens in the time of Covid. This notion is further extended to inquire into the potential for a ‘sublime isolation’ where the current situation requires a deep isolated focus on screen-based experiences, to ensure safety in the Victorian lockdown. However, this places the researcher’s outside everyday experience. The common shared physical places have transgressed to a liminal or threshold space, which is unstable and terrifying. It becomes abundantly clear this pattern of living and creating is mercurial and fickle, where isolation degrades the daily reality of existence. Contribution In Meyrick’s digital triptych, three screens have captured mold cultivated during isolation in the time of Covid. The living organism draws the viewer into the metaphysical, metaphorical and material beauty and terror of isolation. The work presents a macro view of material growth within a confined location, a flourish of active particles which continue to spread and to grow even though bounded by the harsh edges of the vessel which contain them. This is translated for the viewer as a visual labyrinth, a maze of pathways each one circling back upon itself. The work pulls in the viewer to replicate the experiences of our sublime isolation, where it is as if we are growing without moving, thriving without connections, bound by practice. Significance To explore our relationship to the screen in relation to lived experience, and how the material and abstract aspects of our lives can open onto both sublime and terrifying experiences, is of primary importance at this time where more of our lives are taking shape in virtual spaces. The researchers were awarded $4000 in grant funding from the Digital Innovation Festival, 2020.Publication classification
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