a standard life:
bobbing target
Gallery Art Mûr, Montreal, Quebec, 2003

bobbing target is a looped clip, approximately 6 minutes, digitally projected from above onto a large back wall for screening. This installation is designed to be experienced in a rather large, dark and ominous space in order to capture the aesthetic sensibilities of the video and its viewer implication. There are also empty bullet cartridges scattered over the floor from one end to the other and there are two audio speakers installed above to amplify the sound track
This footage was captured in a shooting gallery in Florida, USA and emphasizes the sculptural elements of this environment and visually produces some interesting textural abstraction within this subliminal, pictorial cavity. The sound track is mostly audio footage recorded within the shooting gallery of handguns going off and also the background noise of the bobbing target traveling back and forth manually along a long wire conveyor. This footage has also been manipulated and the sound slowed down in order to stress the physical impact of the bullets going off and the delayed reaction of the sound to the viewer’s sensory system