Noises
‘Noises’ is constructed as a video installation projected in three different but adjacent
spaces. Each projection is a different 'episode' which can be viewed in relation to the
other two episodes but not in any particular order. However the idea of carrying the
experience of one episode into the space of another is important to our engagement
with the piece.
'Noises' was influenced by a reading of Harold Pinter's play 'The Room'. The central
character, a woman is seen in various situations in an office space, this in itself is
a transitory, between space of negotiation. Fragments of dialogue trigger flashbacks
of memory, all of which increase a sense of anxiety and psychological instability.
This is further heightened by obsessive referencing of natural elements: wind, water,
fire and smoke. There is a suggestion of amnesia, narratives begin to coherently
form only to be overtaken by another event at the point of recognition.
As Jean Fisher comments in her essay on Jack Goldstein " there is the experience
of 'time out of joint', a time no longer subordinate to movement and it is in this
liminal delay or caesura, along with the before and after which it ordains once and
for all.
Performance: Helen Renny
Exhibition:
2003 - When in Rome l. Lewisham Art House, London
2003 - Candid Art Trust, London
