Wavelength

Illustrated with text; blue ink on newsprint, newspaper style in comic book form. 'Wavelenght' [sic] was commissioned in 2005 by the British conceptual art gallery, Floating IP. Text is comprised of two untitled essays; the first rendered in a manually generated typewriter style font and the second is in cursive. Both present an analysis of the theory and criticism written about artist Michael Snow's seminal, structuralist film, Wavelength (1966), in which a camera slowly zooms out on a scene over a 45 minute period. Offset tabloid publication, 27.94 cm x 43.18 cm, edition of 1000.

"This work is a reenactment of Michael Snow’s seminal film, “Wavelength” (1967), which depicts a 45 minute zoom through a mainly empty loft space. In my own iteration, I restaged the film as a graphic work, and depicted myself in the act of assessing the thousands of words of text which have been written about it, followed by a period where I bounce a rubber ball, before resuming the act of writing in a more diaristic, speculative manner where I switch from computer to notebook. The misspelling of the film in my title (a malapropism meant to cue the work of critical translation and interpretation I was interested in exploring) was taken from a mistake in the caption of a still of “Wavelength” that appeared in a catalogue published by Academia deer Kent in Berlin on the Sotho art scene of the 60’s and 70’s. “Wavelenght” has been printed three times for three different exhibitions."