Samara Mitchell/Limbo/Luminosity public video-Filter review 2004 |
LIMBO
Public video projection project 2004
FILTER
November 2004
LUMINOSITY
Luminosity is a series of projection-based artworks, created by national and local artistsfor installation upon and within the architecture of Adelaide. The works within Luminosity have been commissioned by ANAT, the Adelaide City Council and Capital City Committee, exploring the notion of ‘sustainable cities’.
James Geurts’s Limbo screened on the Target Wall(Adelaide) in November 2004. Limbo depicts the existence of a bare and solitary tree, subject to a hint of signals. Throughout history, the tree has been utilised to represent the health of our relationship with nature and in genealogy, the strength of ancestral bloodlines. In Limbo the tree as a symbol of nature is rapidly converted into information, something to be transmitted. With graphics that are hard-edged and abstract , like those in a C6g game, the dimensions of the projection obscure the struggling image of the tree, slowly corruption it into a barcode-able commodity.
Review /Samara Mitchell
http://www.anat.org.au/luminosity
