-Pacific National Exhibition.
Neal E. Nolan
2010
Impromptu Pending::
-Pacific National Exhibition.
Neal E. Nolan
2010
The Impromptu Pending installation was quite difficult to document as a result of the low lit environmental aspects of the install.
A single projector was used to map out and cast four different videos of carefully selected stock footage. Objects were placed strategically at different distances to act as backdrop for the individual videos so each projection was sized to fit according to its corresponding object.
In Prompt To Pending.
Live recorded video loop sample footage.
Running time: 3:47:11
Actual video: 20:00
To view a re- contextualization of part of the installation click HERE.
Commissioned by Acme Studios.
Vancouver, BC
2010
Artist Statement.
We perceive to exist within an understanding of general awareness, accepting the direction of mass media and capital marketing towards an elected overall sociological ideal.
Each era represented by it’s own design; music, art, fashion, décor, architecture etc relates its own definition and cultural identity towards its time line within our social status, heritage and experience. Over time cultural themes allude towards a contemporary stasis lending the previous (expansive historical) a sense of nostalgia- emotional memory triggered by sent, tastes, sounds etc.
Popular design reference relates the movement of nostalgic archetypes within twenty-year cycles, imagery, color palettes, music, fashion etc that become redefined into present/ post-participant recognition.
Impromptu Pending presents as a cross platform evocation of imagery, a variable collage of icon and artifact from the last one hundred years: screen printed, assembled, collaged', motion picture projected and air brushed into a three dimensional non linear map of the last century, embracing both parametric and non-parametric methods of time theory, the illusion of identity, distinction, placement and ownership.
In summery, In Prompt to Pending’ questions the stability, independence and self-awareness of individual perception, relating a century of allegory into present day adage.
Installed between August 16th – 20th, the artist created a sleeping area within the container, in composition with the rest of the environment, artifacts, paintings and assemblage, working long hours assembling the concept now complete; this addition reflects directly on homelessness issues current and past and the ingenuity of make shift living environments constructed within our urban landscape.
