Time Out of Place
 
09:30 mins / 16:9 Widescreen / 2007
HD/DVD Installation
Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt

 
The Kings Cross area in London is rapidly transforming, creating a city in flux. Semiconductor have captured this moment in human history by documenting the day to day happenings in a short moving image work. The linear nature of time makes us have a very fixed experience of it; constantly stuck in the present. To break free from these constraints Semiconductor have devised a process where by we see the past present and future simultaneously. This act of seeing time reveals a different visual landscape then we are custom to; as multiple patterns of motion emerge to reveal a new rhythm to the city. Bearing witness to these events we perceive a place in transition, beyond our everyday experiences.
Commissioned by The Big Chill with curator Alice Sharp to celebrate the opening of the Eurostar in the Arrivals programme, 2007: including a specially composed soundtrack by Red Snapper for the opening exhibition at the Big Chill House from the 14th November 2007.