Taking Off, 2007
(Slide show installation)
This piece is part of a series of works that are flying instructions. The first, Passages, was an endurance performance of the gestures seen here, the second was a video installation with blue screen. This work distills the previous versions into instructions directing the viewer to attempt to fly (the slide presentation format adding directness and also a layer of factual authority) making its request for suspension of disbelief especially pointed and also absurd. The piece is installed on a large wall in a gallery space as an ongoing loop.
Review by Lori Waxman as part of her 60 wrd/min art critic project