Site-specific Video Installation, Los Angeles LAX airport, 2010-2018
A camera pans 360 degrees around a grassy marsh and pond in New York harbor, over time revealing both close up and more distant views. Repeated temporal layering and compositing of the oroginal video creates a general visual impression of a poetic blurring of both time and space.
The work at LAX unfolded along a meandering string of 29 video screens hanging above the waiting area of the arrival hall. Two full panoramic cycels of the marsh site were visible at any given moment across all screens, with the increased blurring of the temporal element moving from the right to the left. The panoramas, while visually matching from screen to screen, time-
wise were set apart, an illusion constructed in editing. Each discrete screen, moving from the far left to far right, shows an earlier point in time, as recorded by a single camera, sweeping 360 degrees on a motor mount.
VIEW was part of "See Change," featuring 17 original, site-specific artworks, located in the lower-level arrivals hall of the Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles LAX airport.
Thanks to curator Anne Bray and all fellow artists participating in the project.
Videostills & Video © Kurt Hentschläger
The work at LAX unfolded along a meandering string of 29 video screens hanging above the waiting area of the arrival hall. Two full panoramic cycels of the marsh site were visible at any given moment across all screens, with the increased blurring of the temporal element moving from the right to the left. The panoramas, while visually matching from screen to screen, time-
wise were set apart, an illusion constructed in editing. Each discrete screen, moving from the far left to far right, shows an earlier point in time, as recorded by a single camera, sweeping 360 degrees on a motor mount.
VIEW was part of "See Change," featuring 17 original, site-specific artworks, located in the lower-level arrivals hall of the Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles LAX airport.
Thanks to curator Anne Bray and all fellow artists participating in the project.
Videostills & Video © Kurt Hentschläger
