Sculpture by Kim Farris-Manning, with sound and video by Thomas Nicholson. This audiovisual installation was shown at the Chapel of New Jerusalem, Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria, BC on September 5 to 7, 2017.
Driving — "going for a drive" — typically the experience of “driving” is linked with the act of going somewhere or the physical motion of going from place to place.
What about the drive itself? Could it be more than an intermediate act between being in two places? What might you [unexpectedly] notice if you were not actively participating in the act of driving? Is “going for a drive” unquestionably linked to physically being in a car? What’s more, can a replica artificially capture the essence and wonder of something without being the thing itself? Which senses are essentially wedded to the experience of certain phenomena and what kind of role might art play?
Motion without movement — sensation without physical contact — going somewhere without going anywhere — certain [seemingly contradictory] experiences are taken for granted until you suddenly consider them in relief of their associated mundanities.
Driving — "going for a drive" — typically the experience of “driving” is linked with the act of going somewhere or the physical motion of going from place to place.
What about the drive itself? Could it be more than an intermediate act between being in two places? What might you [unexpectedly] notice if you were not actively participating in the act of driving? Is “going for a drive” unquestionably linked to physically being in a car? What’s more, can a replica artificially capture the essence and wonder of something without being the thing itself? Which senses are essentially wedded to the experience of certain phenomena and what kind of role might art play?
Motion without movement — sensation without physical contact — going somewhere without going anywhere — certain [seemingly contradictory] experiences are taken for granted until you suddenly consider them in relief of their associated mundanities.
