parameters of fear
Galerie Art Mûr, Montreal, Quebec
2005
Muu Gallery Helsinki Finland
2004
dual video single channel projection
Video , approx. 3:10 min. loop

3:10 ground lapse is an approximately 5 minute looped black & white video and mixed media installation. The footage for this video was captured 10 days after the 9/11 tragedy. Besides being a Canadian Visual Artist, I was drawn to this site since I had worked in the World Trade Center in New York City in 1976. This video is the result of that instant replay as I entered ground zero on foot with my digital camcorder and recorded my immediate reaction. This produced a numbing audio track that translated the spectator’s reaction as they hovered over this surreal environment; and as I became extraordinarily enough one of them in this purgatory scene of disarticulation.

Parameters of Fear examines the “culture of fear” that appears to be of increasing magnitude and importance all over the world. Humanity is far from convinced that social order is recovering – rather, that the present populace is living through and in an age of terrorism, environmental disaster and widening inequality. This group of international artists examines manifestations of fear both on a personal and social level, and as captured in the popular imagination. The exhibition aims to serve as a inquiry into how some of the phenomena associated with fear are constituted and negotiated.