Flights and Perchings - 12 video works screened concurrently

A current international trend in video is toward multi screen productions. This work adds new knowledge to this field through synthesising research on multiplicity in the pace of mental life informed by Stephen Kern and through the employment of fragments informed by concrete poetry and the works of Ian Hamilton Finlay. Through a consideration of duration, rhythm and simultaneous multiple screenings the work evokes pace in mental life and triggers the formulation in the viewer of readings that are complex, associative and extend beyond the sum of the parts. Flight and perchings was an international solo exhibition by invitation from the Litmus Research Initiative, Massey University Wellington, a center for research in Fine Art and Photography that hosts' art practitioners to develop and test a range of strategies for the making, presentation and discussion of contemporary art. The exhibition was peer reviewed and financially supported by Litmus, and the RMIT School of Art Staff Development Fund Flights and Perchings The aim of the exhibition was to present a substantial body of video works as a single new entity that brought together a range of concerns around disquiet, uncertainty, hope and fear. The radical presentation of single discreet works into a cohesive co-dependent whole produced new knowledge and understanding of the composite as a structure where different orders of time experience are reconciled over the time of experiencing of the viewer. Through an exploration of waiting and an unfolding in time and through process the exhibition generated new understandings of time, human emotion, endeavor and lived experience.