A row of ten 28" monitors, each separated by a gap measuring 11 cm, mounted on the a wall of a darkened room. The video image passes along the line from monitor to monitor. Initially, the same picture appears on all the monitors; one minute later all screens except one black out. Joelle Leandre's cello music starts up. The remaining picture now slides to the right, seemingly flows out of the screen and into the recess, and now appears at the edge of the next monitor, although a faint shadow remains visible on the first screen. And so the Image inches from monitor to monitor, apparently shifting in time with the cello composition, its unruffled progress miming slow-motion. A continuum of movement, wholly liberated from the constraints of the frame. Thanks to the viewer's associative powers, even the vestigial image occupying the black holes between the monitors remains a hallucinatory component in the fabric of motion.
Half-way through the course a second black-and-white picture appears at the far edge of the line; a third picture follows according to the same rhythm. All three images are linked by a coarse-grained structure which seems to indicate a complete dissolution of subject and form In favour of a new, undefined form.
10 laser disc players, 10 video channels, 10 monitors, wall brackets, 1 audio amplifier, 2-channel sound. Hard- and Software: David Jones. Music: Joelle Leandre. (Loan from the National Museum of Contemporary Art Oslo)