Light Tracing • digital video drawing • projected light interventions
Below are a selection of images from the artist in residency in Performing Drawology on Thursday 4th February 2016. Most of the previous resident artists made significant changes to the gallery and its developing drawing. These light projection and tracing interventions left no evidence of them having been there - only these images as documents of the event. A small projected 'mark' has been left in the gallery as an indicator for some of the performative activities which took place there.
DIGITAL-PROJECTED PAINT INTERVENTION
Live video projection onto entire gallery contents
Colour is applied onto and over the existing drawings, then 'undrawn' using a video - digital erasure.
DIGITAL-PROJECTED PAINT INTERVENTION
Live video projection onto entire gallery contents
Using the existing drawings and structures developed over previous days by other artists. Live video 'paint' and 'brush marks' are projected onto the entire gallery.
DIGITAL-PROJECTED PAINT INTERVENTION
Live video projection onto entire gallery contents
A 35mm slide of a hand-drawn mark is projected across the gallery space onto an existing paper structure.
35MM DRAWN IMAGE PROJECTED ONTO PAPER
Projection onto paper structure
A 35mm slide of a hand-drawn mark is projected across the gallery space onto an existing paper structure.
35MM DRAWN IMAGE - DETAIL 2
Projection onto paper structure
Over time the dark background of the 35mm slide degrades, cracks and splits, adding unpredictable marks to the paper surface.
35MM DRAWN IMAGE - DETAIL 1
Projection onto paper structure
Lines curve into the creases of the folded paper and also reflect/illuminate adjacent surfaces.
LIVE VIDEO DRAWING - DETAIL
Projection onto paper structure
The drawings and coloured areas appear in real time and flow over the curved folds of the paper structure
LIVE VIDEO DRAWING
Projection onto paper structure
Responding to some of the existing paper structures in the gallery - marks are drawn and projected over the surface of the paper.
LIVE VIDEO DRAWING - IPAD IMAGE
Projection onto paper structure
Although the drawing is produced as a flat image, projecting these marks across the gallery, and onto the dimensional structure, cause the marks to 'shift' and appear dimensional.
CURVE - LASER TRACE 2
Hand-moved laser light and curved paper
At the rear of the gallery a movable wall is draped with a large sheet of paper. On the front are marks and interventions, on the back is a forgotten blank surface with gently protruding corners.
CURVE - LASER TRACE 2
Hand-moved laser light and curved paper
The front is marked with ink and projected video from other artists in residence. The back is forgotten and blank.
CURVE - LASER TRACE 3
Hand-moved laser light and curved paper
The slight protruding curve of the paper roll formed the surface for these luminous marks. Moved/scanned by hand, 4 points of laser light were used to 'draw' onto the corner structure.
FLOOR/WALL TRACING 1
Hand-moved laser light and gallery floor/wall
The junction between the gallery wall and floor was used as a location for drawing.
FLOOR/WALL TRACING 2
Hand-moved laser light and gallery floor/wall
Light was traced round the entire gallery perimeter, folding back onto itself at locations where ink and marks left by previous 'drawers' were present.
FLOOR/WALL TRACING 3
Hand-moved laser light and gallery floor/wall
Each coloured mark is a transitory mark who's path is made visible through the photograph which captures it.
CONE TRACE 2
Hand-moved laser light and paper structure
The tiny points of intense illumination are able to penetrate into the crevices and folds of the structure, not only leaving lines of light but broad panels of colour.
CONE TRACE 1
Hand-moved laser light and paper structure
Using one of the existing paper structures built by previous artists in residence, small points of light were slowly traced in and around the object.
CONE TRACE 3
Hand-moved laser light and paper structure
Like all of these light tracings, they are visible in the gallery for moments and then disappear. Their intervention recorded as a memory or their marks.