A strange daydream deprived of all thickness
Mad Homes (by Mad Art Seattle)
July 16 - August 7, 2011
a strange daydream, deprived of all thickness lifts a phrase found in Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Space in which Bachelard considers the quality of different spaces (rooms) in a house to furnish an archive for memory and safe haven for dreams. The installation incorporates use of multiple automated slide projectors: providing a means of tampering with rhythmic time, duration, and induced states of reverie.
Texts from various sources are broken down and projected word by word, in effect wallpapering the room with an ever-dissolving collage of phrases formed independently of the original content being distributed per individual projector; the effect of this flickering word-carousel is reminiscent of Raymond Queneau's Cent Mille Milliards de Poèmes, an Oulipian exercise modeled after children's picture books in which images are divided into horizontal strips that can be combined and re-combined in almost endless iterations.
About Mad Homes:
“Prior to salvage and redevelopment, a group of five neighboring homes in Seattle’s North Capitol Hill neighborhood were used by selected artists to create temporary, site-specific installations. Participants were free to use both the interior and exterior spaces of the homes, and had the unusual opportunity to cut into walls, ceilings, and floors. The final works included multi-media projections, soft sculpture, woodworking, painting, and mixed media. Mad Homes was open to the public, and invited viewers to walk through the art, experiencing each room as a different installation. MadArt’s goal for this project was to create an unexpected, joyful, and distinctive art experience for visitors, while providing local artists a valuable and rare opportunity to create large-scale artwork.”