Marc Yeats

VISCER-ebr-AL

• Linear Momentum In a Small Space June 17, 2013
  Image by Desirée Talbot Site-specificity implies neither simply that a work is to be found in a particular place, nor, quite if it is that place. It means, rather, that what the work looks like and what it means is dependent in large part on the configuration of the space in which it is realised. […]
  Ian Talbot
• Time Machine May 31, 2013
  Cinema, which can neither be touched, smelt nor even seen in the light of day, holds yet another paradox of stability and fragility: time. As surely as night follows day, time runs on in a measured fashion, in this case at twenty-four frames per second. The frames, however, are still pictures, and like fractions of […]
  Ian Talbot
• In Memory of Feeling – À la recherche du temps perdu May 13, 2013
  Nostalgia isn't a way of representing history, but of experiencing it, which is where the pain comes in. The photographs spark off remembrances of the past, and the new associations that we make watching them. The past maintains an abiding strain on representation, even, and perhaps especially, in those cases where history and context appear […]
  Ian Talbot
• In Memory of Feeling :: Environmental Codes May 8, 2013
  An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call anything a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happens to me, that I can affect, or that affects me. Jacques Derrida Although I entirely agree with Derrida here, I suppose photographing one’s home environment as part of a self-portrait […]
  Ian Talbot
• Monolith :: The Long Shadow (the installation view) May 5, 2013
  I think that ways of looking are determined more by the circumstances in which a film is seen than the commercial or 'alternative' intent of the director. Douglas Gordon …expanded cinema includes work that reverses the position of spectator and filmmaker, explodes the frame… Deconstructs the cinematic apparatus, unfixes the image and initiates new […]
  Ian Talbot