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This work is part of a series of installations, previous ones being in Los Angeles and Mumbai. In these works, neighbouring, "outsider" contexts are forced into the black box of media/video art. This is ofcourse related to 60's installation artists' critique and often physical puncture of the "white cube" of museum or gallery space. But it is also a reference to cinema, or more precisely pre-cinematic architectures such as the room camera obscura, and their manipulation (socialization, capitlization) of the captured image, before cinema.
A window with an electronically controlled "shutter" lets in light and a view from the outside. At Harvestworks, this outside is an almost -forgotten inner courtyard, with airconditioning units and artificial lighting that creates a particularly harsh light and sound environment. Normally the window is never opened, because of the loud fans. As the room was cleared for the installation, we could look into neighbours windows and they could see us, an inverted state of the "picturesque" window.
The shutter closes automatically after a randomized period, creating a dark and mostly silent room. The room enters a state in which "cinema" can happen. Almost immediately a projection of the window opening comes up, adjacent to the now closed window. These cycles - the window shutter coming down, the "movie" coming up, the movie ending, and the window opening up again - evoke states of storage / release, surveillance / exhibitionism, and a sense of audiences / bodies both performing for and being captured within, these transformations.