Interim Images

Collaboration with Choreographer : Chandralekha
Brooklyn Academy of Music Nest Wave Festival,
Artists in Action
Presented at The Queens Museum of Art, New York City.
October 19-21, 1995

Dimensions: H30' x W88' x D20' (914 x 2682x610cm)
Materials: Projected eye which blinks a single time across the expanded 40 minute performance, Talc, Animators, Expanding Latex Shadow Figure, Copper Dish, Steel Spiral Ascent, Prone Breathing Figure.
Elements:
Forty minute single eye blink spanning 55 feet (1676 cm)
Breathing horizontal figure with latex shadow which stretches
Circular pool
White powder mound cratered with stones
Trembling mirrors
Rotating squares
Copper reflecting pool
Ascending Spiral

INTERIM: after the end and before the beginning was an inquiry into now a moment in time might appear if captured and subsequently stretched. By default, the division of time into a singular moment is an impossibility, to contemplate the present, it is already past, therefore this work became an infinite, eternal fiction.
This moment was defined by a basic human increment, a single blink of an eye, which occurred over forty minutes. A sequence of percussion, movement, light, reflection and visual occurrences obliquely illuminate this moment which cannot be held, retained but only imagined.

Consultant: Sadanand Menon
Original Music: T.H. Subash Chandran
Performers: T.H. Bhuvaneshwari, Sudha Jagannath, Shaji John, Usha K. Nair
Animators: Jennifer Cohn, Emily Greenhill, Ian Hill
Lighting: Eric Cornwell

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