Interval - From One To Another

From One To Another

What do artists embody in their use of dual screens?

The ServicePoint Building
4 Whitworth Street West
Manchester
M15WY

Preview:
18/04/08 6-9pm

Exhibition continues:
19/04/08-1/05/08
mon-fri 4-7pm
sat/sun 2-5pm

When we look at screens what we see is almost always in a solo format. This applies to conventional broadcast media such as television and cinema as well as most screen-based art. Able to identify with the single image, the viewer is completely absorbed in the illusion, suspending disbelief and concentrating completely on what is on show within the viewing window, disregarding the physical space outside it.

Going beyond the composition of a single screen offers the viewer a new way of seeing. Multiple screen formations create new dimensions for meaning and perception. In the provision of multiple perspectives, the viewer is less immersed in the single image. Narrative, for example, functions differently, as the viewer needs to make sense of the theme played out across the different scenes. Likewise, perspective becomes plural and more fragmented. This destabilises the traditional image/viewer relationship, as no single window creates a 'centre' or completely dominates the viewers attention.

Interval is pleased to present the work of three artists working with dual screen video. Each explores through their use of this double framework a different way of synchronising alternate viewpoints. This dual perspective also requires the viewers commitment in adjusting to this different way of looking.

Zhang Ding - Boxing 1&2
Nina Fischer and Maroan El Sani - Toute la mémoire du monde
Lisa Klapstock - Field Studies: Exposure and Focus

Curated by Karen Gaskill

www.interval.org.uk