Epic (2)
Melissa Laing
February 20 - March 17, 2001
"They create nothing and cause people to wait for something"
Melissa Laing, 2000
Auckland artist Melissa Laing
was one of the primary organizers behind Rezone, a series of artist's
projects located in parks and recreation areas. Occupying public urban
spaces throughout the city, Rezone interrogated both traditional notions
of the gallery as 'white cube', and of 'art in the park', with it's array
of site specific installation, performance, and multi-media works. She
is currently based in the Netherlands where she is studying at postgraduate
level.
Epic (2) is part of an ongoing
video series by Laing which explores the state of anticipation, often
placing the viewer in a situation where a fictional narrative teases them
into waiting, unfilled, for a climax or resolution. Utilizing repetition
of sound and images, the events in her videos appear common place and
mundane - the artist ascending before us in a tube station elevator, a
train passing, sequences which loop endlessly and monotonously without
end, fixed in place.
Reviews & Essays Fresh - A series profiling
Contemporary New Zealand Practitioners
Essay by Lee Devenish
in The Physics Room Annual
2001
ISBN 0-9582359-1-0
Classy
to dull
The Press, 2001 Mar. 14, p. 34
Ussher, Robyn.
Installations by Melissa Laing, Ina Johann, Nathan Pohio.
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