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JIM ALLEN - WORK - PSYCHIC TRAJECTORIES

 

 

PP 19-27 (Project Programme) October - November 2000. Grey Lynn, Auckland

The installation included a 4m diameter circle of red light bulbs, a chair with tree branches attached by a bloody bandage, and texts pinned to the studio walls. The catalogue statement included an Aboriginal quote discussing a song-making decision, juxtaposed to an Art Language quote regarding the 'Private Language Argument'. The wall text referenced acts of perception and linguistic issues, (a variety of language systems) including mathematical diagrams, graphs and three dimensional grids.

The 'Trajectories', a complex mix of projections could be thought of as predestination's given the choices/commitment people make in their lifetime. The installation/environment projects no immediate sensibility except, perhaps that which carries a reference to the Theatre of the Absurd. A measure of unreality which nevertheless offers some (ambiguous) references. We are asked to side-step into a nether world of indeterminacy and uncertainty. To slip through a window and play games with a shifting focus of prompt messages that don't necessarily make a whole but can suggest possibilities and the projection of unlikely relationships.


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