Sunday, 29 January 2012

Matt's Gallery

Argh! Sound overload. I have been in the room for about 15 minutes and keep hearing the same sounds, over and over again. Like mechanical birds each with its own individual and annoying cheep-cheep. And then, hang on, I keep hearing new sounds.
The artist had stuck bright neon 'feathers' to cameras to make them look like birds.


The sound is important. These things work well individually, but in a room all together without sound, wouldn't make sense. The camera tripods remind me of trees. The cameras could almost be seen as little eyes. Emma Hart, the artist, has created an avian nightmare. The man in charge of the exhibition says to him they are like sculptures,  but I don't think of them that way. We become part of the performance as we look into the cameras. Not many people walk to the middle of the room to view the cameras. If you do, prepare for an interesting experience...it's a bit like standing in a clearing in a forest...