Contact

Overview

Contact is an installation of physical windmills, which suggests an insertion in modernist formalism, but subverts its achievement fiercely both in terms of academic heritage, and by introducing in one move, the retraction of the artist's hand, and by another the replacement 'branding' of its corporate/aesthetic identity. This relation, and parody, is arguably an unsettling of the image at work in post-consumerist play of the culture industry that rewards the participant/consumer's "intelligence" in its seduction as part of the interactive aesthetic of the "game".

The Installation accommodates a minimum area of 5m x 5m. The piece is scatter-based, so its parameters are flexible. Each Windmill is fabricated in sheet polypropylene, acrylic screws and plastic. Metal rods are driven into the ground to secure each pole and the floor is concrete. Fans are strategically placed to turn each windmill.

The animated head is projected or multiplied on large monitors. There are many variations of the installation's composition. The animated heads can be small but multiplied, or large and singular.