LIMBO
6.30 minutes Luminosity ProjectLIMBOL
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