Title
Document Type
Creative Work
ANZSRC / FoR Code
1905 VISUAL ARTS AND CRAFTS
COinS
Creative Work
1905 VISUAL ARTS AND CRAFTS
Publication Details
Kreckler, D. J. (2006). Derek Kreckler: New Work. Experimetal Art Foundation, 2006, Adelaide, South Australia.
Installation 'Antidote' website here.
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RESEARCH IMPACT STATEMENT
Research Background
Antidote is an audiovisual work created for the solo exhibition 'New Work'. The work is a poetic rendering of a waterfall using video and audio recorded at Quinnenup Falls, Western Australia. Using 6 video projectors and 12-channel surround sound, Antidote was presented in a rectangular space approximately 12 x 6 metres square. The image appeared seamless as the technology was hidden; this was deliberate and integral to the formal and narrative concerns of the work. The projectors are placed (under foot and in the ceiling), and participants have to negotiate the video beams in order to view the installation.
Research Contribution
The work utilises both creative and technical expertise to extend artistic boundaries and enrich viewers’ experience. The rhythms within the various channels smoothly change in pace. Each projection features a view of the waterfall; some are shot in extreme close-up so that the image appears over time to abstract into patterns, others show the site and location of the falls. Using different shot types and differing tempi the perceptual process for the viewer slows, changing the way the work is received.
Research Significance
The exhibition was a solo exhibition produced by Performance Space, Sydney, curated by Dr Blair French (now Director of Artspace, Sydney). The exhibition received excellent reviews in the Australia Council supported publications, RealTime 71 and Broadsheet distributed to audiences nationally, as well as via the respected ABC visual arts commentator and blogger, Andrew Frost (artlife.blogspot.com). Antidote was subsequently exhibited at the Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide by invitation of the then Director, Melente Pandilovski.