 |
WORKING WITH INSTALLATION, VIDEO AND PHOTOGRAPHY
"I am interested in revealing images which are very strong; that offer a glimpse of past worlds and indistinct realities; where the boundaries between fiction and documentary blur, and memories take on a life of their own." TO
SEE THE FULL PORTFOLIO, VISIT WWW.ART-SITE.ORG.UK
|
| portrait by Sandrine Albert |
| Biography: |
Gillian McIver was raised in Vancouver
Canada. She studied history and philosophy in Canada, and moved to London
in the '90s where she studied film and video, and fine art. She works
principally in video and installation art, interested in the idea of
place. Her work in site-responsive art continues her lifelong interest
in history and philosophies of history. |
"My video work investigates the nuances of moments in the grand narrative of history and philosophy, through the use of very slow motion, close-ups and layering of images. Capturing the frame-by-frame moment when images melt into one another emphasizes the symbiotic relationship between the image and fractions in time. In my work as a whole, I explore the abstract and exploratory scenery of real places as motifs to create a hyper-real space existing in an imaginary timeframe reminiscent of memory. Using environmental loops, non-linear narratives, and slow-motion images as patterns, I create meditative environments which suggest the expansion of space, and cyclical drifts of time." |
recent texts:
Artist Initiative in Moscow Variant
15, Summer 2002
Framing the 20th Century, Year
01 Forum, Spring 2002
theoretical texts
|
||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||
| installation with video | ||||||||||
 ORPHEUS, 1999 |
 psychiatric sentence collaboration with Julian Ronnefeldt 3D + video installation 2002 |
|||||||||
 The Devil is right behind you installation 1997. |
 A Brief History of the 20th Century multiscreen video installation1998 |
|||||||||
|
|
||||||||||
| photo-series | ||||||||||
|
||||||||||
|
||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||
|
||||||||||
