Tim Skinner
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MUTATIONS
A new body of explorations into beauty within repetition and constant visual recycling. 'Mutations' feeds of the visuals of my two channel video installation 'Footfall'. Really like this concept of using the video documentation of the installation, to create a new installation, which in turn will create another, making an endless cycle of visuals and inturn understanding the true nature of repetition. The aim will be to produce a book documenting my aesthetic exploration.
Book 'Mutated'
Mutated
Throughout many artists’ creative careers a change in visual strategy has occurred, in some cases perhaps too frequently. For me 2010 ushered in what I perceive to be a significant change, a new ordered approach to my creative processes and moving the single-channel video works into new physical dimensions. That’s not to dismiss the importance of my creations throughout the past three and half years, works which helped me to regain my own visual identity something which I felt I had lost throughout my sonic explorations preceding 2007. They made me fall in love with the video medium, fast instant creations akin to my early life as a painter.
This new work seems far more progressive, dealing with visual recycling, echoing my love of beauty in repetition, bringing a more satisfactory craft element into my work. This book will display and visually document the diverse cycle of work created out of recycling the 2010 two-channel video installation ‘Footfall’. The starting point of this project, which commenced in September 2010, was the film footage documenting the whole installation. The deconstruction of this footage through a series of repetition soon evolved to create a moving tartan-esque pattern. Re-using construction materials used for ‘Footfall’ I started to mix them with the video creation-a new three dimensional (Tony Oursler-esque) video installation had emerged. This blueprint for reusing and recycling had been set, and for me answered a question that had plagued me during the creation of ‘Footfall’: what are you going to do with such a large structure?
Repetition
Repetition is currently dominating my recent video work. ‘Far Away Rhythm’ (Copenhagen, 2008), was the first piece where I had successfully integrated repetition, duplicating numerously the same image presented on the same screen to create a brand new moving landscape. ‘Far Away Rhythm’ beckoned a new fascination with the concept of desolate repetition.
Repetition can, like tautology in poetry, be seen as a fault but I find it visually very enticing. Andy Warhol used repetition to illustrate mass markets, commercialism and the destruction of the soul through capitalism but I found his use of visuals tended to be loud and brash. To me repetition handled right can illustrate a warm sense of serene desolation; the photographer Andreas Gursky is a great exponent of this. A big influence within my visual approach is the grey, still, but effortlessly beautiful paintings of the Danish painter Wilhelm Hammershoi. Gursky’s photographs not only document repetition in the manmade world, but I find had all the visual values found within Hammershoi’s work.
There is another side of repetition that my work is starting to employ, more in the physical sense. Recycling, one of the buzzwords of the past twenty years, is now a current theme within my work. I am very much interested in the constant recycling of visuals: displaying the visuals, filming them and then using the filmed visuals to create a new work. Projecting video works onto the tools used to create the original work creates another aspect of recycling.
Footfall,
Two Channel Video Installation, 2010
‘Footfall’ was not only an installation but a four week audio visual enquiry into the movement of walking, an idea that was first conceived a good three years before completion, during my exploration into bass tones vibrating water.
The idea was to build a large catwalk structure, which acts as a tool to record the sounds of human footfall. It wasn’t until 2010 when I was given the chance to readdress this idea, in the shape of a four-week residency in the gallery attached to the studio group where I work.
In the May of 2010 work commenced, spending the first five days erecting a six metre long catwalk running the full length of the gallery’s back wall. Once various microphones and a single video camera had been installed, I spent the following two weeks trying to compile a variety of recordings.
Through processes I had developed through my previous creations, I set about deconstructing and reworking my video and audio recordings.
The final installation was exhibited over the last weekend of May. The catwalk including muddy footprints was rotated 90º becoming the screens to project the two worked final videos. The two identical mirrored projections filled the whole of the catwalk, presented as one very long moving landscape. The sound of footfall echoed around the gallery, becoming a very surreal sensation.
Starting point 'Footfall'.
1st Mutation
Through repeating the visuals, constantly mutiplying, a moving grid pattern soon emerged.
In September 2010 a new installation was emerging. Projecting the pattern onto the wood used to build the Footfall catwalk.
It was this installation which was filmed and will go onto to create the second mutation.
Early plays with the second mutation October 2010
After a short time away from the work I wanted to create some more single channel video pieces, fully explore the notion of beautiful isolation within repetition. So et this moment in time I am re-adressing the video work for the first mutation, and continuing exploration into the second mutation.
Mutation one
1:1a 1:2a 1:3a 1:4c 1:4d 1:4e
Mutation two
2:1a 2:1b
