(Jen Harvie, February 2008)
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The miniature animated sequence was created from still images photographed by a camera fixed above the ‘stage’ area in Tramway 1 - recording performances from a birds’ eye perspective. Images were captured every 30 seconds throughout the performances, then combined to create time-lapse sequences. | ||
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The images were projected onto a scale plan of the ground floor of Tramway, drawn directly onto the concrete floor at Tramway’s main entrance. The projections were positioned to correspond with their ‘real life’ location. | ||
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‘Entering the building,
I immediately loved the tidy fastidiousness of the architectural drawing
of the Tramway’s layout and I loved that this was almost missable if
you weren’t looking, like a doormat; but if you were looking, it was
such a treat. So elegant. So accurate. A kind of mathematical equation
of simple accuracy. And then gradually it became apparent that the stage
space was a different material, or, indeed, had a projection on it [...]
At first it was just beguiling because it was a set of morphing, almost
abstract images. And then gradually, some images became recognisable [...]
It was a pleasure, then, to watch people trying to recognise certain shows
or times of year in these shifting images. And immediately we were invited
into several different spatial relations with the building. It was miniaturised
by its drawing, but we were miniaturised too, invited to stoop down to
feel the floor and to examine the morphing images at close range. It also
produced a nice grouping at the door of excited observers all comparing
their impressions of the images.’ (Jen Harvie, February 2008)
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