Lost in Space
Burgoyne, Greig (2019) Lost in Space. [Drawing, Exhibition/show, Film, Performance, Site-specific work, Video]
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The Other-Space presents ‘74 Years- Responses to the Anthropocene’ an exhibition curated by Other-Art Network (OA.N) bringing together works from 11 contemporary artists working in a variety of media. Expect film, sculpture, installation, poetry and performance.
Positioned abruptly in what the OA.N describes as a moment of cognitive short-termism, 74 Years continues the OA.N’s interest in the passage of time. The title is a reference to the Trinity Test on the 16th of July 1945, a moment that the Geological Society later coined as; the start of the era in which mankind has had a significant impact on the geology of the earth, or, the Anthropocene.
The steady normalisation of states of disaster across the world is a powerful demonstration of the human capacity to avert the mind from impending catastrophe. 74 Years aims to confront this cognitive short-termism and engage with our present epoch by presenting carefully curated art works in a setting where you are invited to consider the events of the last 74 years and their impact on the systems of the Earth.
Burgoyne in an inflatable horse outfit.. A horse measures its stable area (the gallery where the resulting performance as film will be shown) by counting out-loud its footsteps while simultaneously recording this on an iPhone. Then outside, in the vast grounds opposite the stately home, the horse plays back the recording and follows the 74 steps (measurement of footsteps to walk area of stable) 74 times. In theory the horse will reiterate its stable area, instead it seems to wander aimlessness but with conviction. decisively indecisive , purposeful lack of purpose, futility, perhaps lost in space.
Actual performance 1 hr 49 mins, film is edited version.
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