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LYNNE SANDERSON
...mutant!... 7 MAY - 31 MAY 1998 A video, slide and sound installation work, using 12 monitors, 4 slide projectors and sound system by this young South Australian electronic artist. The work looks at bodily mutation, sex and cyber technology in a projected futuristic cyborg world. Lynne has made a lot of work for presentation in dance club contexts and her work was curated by Peter Callas for a show of new Australian video at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and another piece of hers was toured by the EAF to Manilla in 1995. Lynne Sanderson's SUSTENANCE site http://sustenance.va.com.au ...mutant!... posited powerfully two sets of imagery, each with its own distinctly different yet related connotations & associations. On the walls two pairs of static images were projected by high-placed projectors. These showed pairs of bodies, male & female, in rather classic, if not classical, complementary poses suggestive of human physical possibility & power. Overlaying these were machine parts: chain, spanners, toggles. The look was of nineteenth century visions of utopian genetic evolution of the human, a dream of prosthetic development by a Mechanistic Imaginary. At the end of the gallery, facing the viewer between these large static images was a bank of twelve video monitors - with sound. On these was a more 1998 vision, of the same ambition but modified by contemporary digital, electronic technology & concepts of genetic DNA modification & designing. A slightly more fluidly gendered male-into-female-into-male-&-back-again imagery looped down through these towers of (four) screens - in a way that suggested, maybe, the spiral of DNA code. A loud music gave the vision a kind of techno nightclub inflection. |
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| view of one moniter in a 4 moniter stack (x3) | Documentation Photography by Alan Cruickshank |