(April 07) Three-screen video/audio installation: projections on tables.

I have tried to make ‘The Blackbird’s Whistle’ perform the incommunicability that it explores. The work considers in abstract terms the tenuous grasp of comprehension that we temporarily borrow from things and words as we engage in their exchange. Its concerns percolate to the surface of the installation in touchable gestures and the close sounds of movement. While the work is sensually inviting, it remains resolutely quiet and resists coming away from the surface of itself - the videos never end; never close; never come to.

The individual titles of the three videos interrupt the wholeness of the installation and imply the layered proposition of the work. The serial arrangement of the tables sets up a relation of parallelism between the videos and highlights the formal and propositional similarities among the videos, as in the split-screen ‘Table Multiples’ video above.