Untitled

Research Background Wolfgang Tillmans uses groupings of images to create 'everyday' narratives in an extension of the 'everyday' potency of Fischli and Weiss's 'Flowers and Questions' (2008). While 'Untitled' is an image sequence that also includes the domestic it has an explicit political concern, proposing images can be viewed 'geographically' rather than associatively (ie that viewers' moving (their eyes) around a sequence are here trapped in an interior where the only view through a window is blasted with white light or concealed with curtains. The viewer 'moves' downstairs, across details that suggest different rooms then must return upstairs. The exterior is refused. In a project addressing climate change, this sequence creates a claustrophobic containment and sense of threat. Research Contribution Here, it is the importance of eye movement to the experience of artworks that makes this work innovative. It is an extension of 30 years of research into the 'roles' viewers might take on. Here it is how they move. This physical inter-relationship between artwork and viewer is central in new investigations into the 'post-human' and forms the beginning, for Jones, of an investigation of photographic sequencing to do this. Research Significance This work was exhibited in House and Home, curated by Malcom Bywaters, at Margaret Lawrence Gallery, University of Melbourne and at Academy Gallery, Launceston. It is the first in a series of photographic sequences using Watford House, Avoca about which he wrote a chapter for his recent PhD, "House and Home: An investigation of Domestic Space in contemporary Australian Visual Art".