“Thrown” at BAU through April 30

Installation at Beacon Artist Union in Beacon, NY titled Thrown. Includes a scene from Aground, “ZongLocLondon.10.06.2007” on Apple TV, bench and a cargo net that prevents entering installation.

From statement:
A sailing vessel appears held in suspension, cut off from foreground and background. Current weather and historic data specific to the Atlantic passage further shapes the scene. Not a video game, Thrown is slow cinema or tv: nothing happens in the sense of plot or an open gaming narrative. Instead, the screen frames a middle ground with subtle shifts in color and motion. Sparked by J.M.W. Turner’s The Slave Ship, Thrown is as much about politics as aesthetics, and how they occupy the same space.

Thrown is evidentiary realism: scenes are created and set in motion with a list of rules; the machine views and captures evidence of itself in and through the loops; video results are to be enjoyed first for their formal qualities, then relevance to context, both current and historical. Obvious to the eye, not so much to the mind.