Museum of Fire

Museum of Fire is one third of a three part portmanteau project made in collaboration with John Conomos and David Haines. The work plays with and across various types of motion landscapes: an early motif for many new media artists in the 1980s and 90s. The work's text is placed over multiple moving and abstracted motion landscapes, both visual and aural. The text itself is multi-sourced, comprising found texts and first person narratives. Motifs of acceleration, driving, train travel, ships on the ocean create a 'oceans of static' as communications and transport merge creating a cinematic world in which split screens of dreamscapes and motionscapes merge into one abstract contemplation of ' the history of luminous motion'.
Gillian Fuller

Caines, Chris

1991

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