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An introductory exploration of postmodernism and the theoretical ideologies examined in artworks (November 2017)
Essay in the form of a multimedia installation;
Desk, extension cord, television, video monitor (projecting a 42-minute video on infinite loop), sound, remote, DVD, DVD case (hung on wall), inkjet printed essay on 10 A4 pages encased within wooden frame (hung on wall)
Dimensions variable. The original desk used in this installation was the beautiful oak roll-top which stood outside Mr Zachariassen's office, which the artist transported to the site of installation at night after all students and teachers had left the building. The artist left a note on the senior school principal's door explaining the disappearance of his desk.
This installation was originally curated to exist in the hallway of the Visual Arts Floor at Scots College during the artist's final year at high school, accompanied with the following text:
"Within An introductory exploration of postmodernism and the theoretical ideologies examined in artworks (November 2017) the artist confronts and questions the disciplinary aesthetic confinements of NCEA academia and art. Conscious that essays produced in school are typically published in the form of printed A4 pages, Benji challenges the conventional way of which the marker (teacher, at this time Mr Jarry) reads and interacts with an essay, instead presenting his essay An introductory exploration of postmodernism and the theoretical ideologies examined in artworks (August, September 2017) as a multimedia installation: reading figuratively as well as conceptually.
The viewer is able to read the essay only by situating themselves in front of the television screen and watching the text of the essay mechanically step down the screen for 42 minutes (on infinite loop). The marker is confronted with an experience which differs from typical marking; sensorially, spatially, physically, and temporally determined by the artist. As the text of the essay is projected through the television, sound plays in the background; audio recordings made while the artist was writing the essay at his desk. These sounds are made more noticeable especially at times of heightened noise: conversations with his mother, a tinkering of coffee cup against saucer, the artist exiting his chair.
Contextualising his essay as a video installation, the artist establishes a physical relationship between his artwork and the subject to which he examines within his essay: postmodernism in art. The static noise and frenetic flickering of the television screens within the installation represent the propositions of French philosopher Jean Baudrillard, who likened postmodern existence to a flickering TV screen: immediate, shifting and fragmented, with no underlying truth."
The photographs displayed on this page were made during the artwork's installation in the C-Floor corridor at Weir House, the artist's residence of 2018
An introductory exploration of postmodernism and the theoretical ideologies examined in artworks (November 2017)
Essay in the form of a multimedia installation;
Desk, extension cord, television, video monitor (projecting a 42-minute video on infinite loop), sound, remote, DVD, DVD case (hung on wall), inkjet printed essay on 10 A4 pages encased within wooden frame (hung on wall)
Dimensions variable. The original desk used in this installation was the beautiful oak roll-top which stood outside Mr Zachariassen's office, which the artist transported to the site of installation at night after all students and teachers had left the building. The artist left a note on the senior school principal's door explaining the disappearance of his desk.
This installation was originally curated to exist in the hallway of the Visual Arts Floor at Scots College during the artist's final year at high school, accompanied with the following text:
"Within An introductory exploration of postmodernism and the theoretical ideologies examined in artworks (November 2017) the artist confronts and questions the disciplinary aesthetic confinements of NCEA academia and art. Conscious that essays produced in school are typically published in the form of printed A4 pages, Benji challenges the conventional way of which the marker (teacher, at this time Mr Jarry) reads and interacts with an essay, instead presenting his essay An introductory exploration of postmodernism and the theoretical ideologies examined in artworks (August, September 2017) as a multimedia installation: reading figuratively as well as conceptually.
The viewer is able to read the essay only by situating themselves in front of the television screen and watching the text of the essay mechanically step down the screen for 42 minutes (on infinite loop). The marker is confronted with an experience which differs from typical marking; sensorially, spatially, physically, and temporally determined by the artist. As the text of the essay is projected through the television, sound plays in the background; audio recordings made while the artist was writing the essay at his desk. These sounds are made more noticeable especially at times of heightened noise: conversations with his mother, a tinkering of coffee cup against saucer, the artist exiting his chair.
Contextualising his essay as a video installation, the artist establishes a physical relationship between his artwork and the subject to which he examines within his essay: postmodernism in art. The static noise and frenetic flickering of the television screens within the installation represent the propositions of French philosopher Jean Baudrillard, who likened postmodern existence to a flickering TV screen: immediate, shifting and fragmented, with no underlying truth."
The photographs displayed on this page were made during the artwork's installation in the C-Floor corridor at Weir House, the artist's residence of 2018
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