FRONTDARK :

'...

we look at them or don't from within 

the milky gauze

 of our tilted gazing

but they don't look back and we

cannot hurt them'

Tandem Projects: Nicole Clift and Inneke Taalman (SA)

This project was initially inspired by the discovery of the most distant object ever visited by spacecraft, named Arrokoth (meaning ‘sky’ in now extinct Powhatan language) which provides compelling evidence that collisions between objects in space can be gentle and occur ‘at just a brisk human’s walking pace’.[1] This relativity between massive, unfathomably old and distant space objects and our own everyday movements sparked our interest in treating the FELTspace site as a satellite or centre to orbit/pivot from. Through shooting slow panning video of the building and its reflections, we aim to highlight the tactility of the site, of which many viewers will have physically visited, to play with tandem notions of familiarity/unfamiliarity and bodily knowledge/ visual information. This project has been executed knowing the footage will be played on the FELTdark window space at night, and we enjoy the notion of the building reflecting itself during these times of self-isolation. 

The project’s title is an excerpt from Adrienne Rich’s poem ‘Hubble Photographs: After Sappho’ (2005).

This activity is proudly supported by the Adelaide Central School of Art Graduate Support Program and Arts South Australia COVID-19 Innovating Practice Grant.

The artists would like to thank Picture Hire Australia, Chase and Rosina Possingham.

BACK GALLERY: INNEKE TAAL (SA) AND NICOLE CLIFT (SA) - GALLERY IN RESIDENCE (TANDEM PROJECTS)

Building on from our 2020 FELTdark video work which projected slow panning footage of the gallery at dawn, ruminating on universal time and collision in space that related back to a pace of human movement; we aim to extend this logic into documenting the interior of the building at night, revealing the gallery at rest. How does the experience of a gallery change or shift when 'we' the viewers/spectators are not there, when the work is in the dark? We will accumulate footage/material of the current exhibitions at FELTspace as a gallery-in-residence which will be open to the public as it takes shape, and will conclude with a closing event on Friday 19th February.