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Falling forward - Installation - 2010
presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 12
Installation
A film that explodes an idea of time and présence. Filmed in extreme slow motion the work is a suggestion of a presence passing the camera, as if the spectator is looking through a window onto an event happening in real time. Falling figures are drawn by gravity towards an inevitable end when leaping into space. In photographs figures float, stoical and free, open to forces beyond them. Resigned to a conclusion that is foregone, realized in oblivion, in disappearance, what are the thoughts, the memories at this precise moment for this person? An eternity is experiences within seconds, seemingly oblivious to all else around them. I want this film to freeze this compressed moment of contemplation. Images of broken ice, glass, photographs and dust are captured at 1000 frames per second, whilst a solitary female figure passes the screen in one brief moment. The accompanying soundtrack maintains a hovering tension, creating an inviting, sensual yet melancholy présence.
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Scanner (British artist Robin Rimbaud) traverses the experimental terrain between sound and space connecting a bewilderingly diverse array of genres. Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings, the albums Mass Observation (1994), Delivery (1997), and An Ascent (2020), hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music.
To date he has scored 66 contemporary dance productions, including the hit musical comedy Kirikou & Karaba, Narnia for the London Royal Ballet, and the world's first virtual reality ballet, Nightfall, for the Dutch National Ballet.
More unusual projects have included designing sound for the Philips Wake-Up Light (2009), the re-opening of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 2012 and the Cisco telephone system used in offices around the world.
His work Salles des Departs is permanently installed in a working morgue in Paris whilst Vex, the residential house by Chance de Silva architects, featuring his permanent soundtrack, won the RIBA London Award 2018. Listening Forest, developed with artist Rafael Lozano Hemmer, is currently on display at Crystal Bridges Museum, USA until 2024. He has collaborated with Bryan Ferry, Wayne MacGregor, Mike Kelley, Rafael Lozano- Hemmer, Michael Nyman, Steve McQueen, Laurie Anderson and Hussein Chalayan, amongst many others.
