Duration: 1.3 Minutes
Location: 17.3 Miles
2000-2003
In the year 2000, I began filming cities around the world in a very intimate and exploratory way. The series Transitio started in 2001 with the exhibition Duration: 1 Hour and 3 Minutes — Location: 17.3 Miles at Paul Rodgers Gallery in New York City, that coincided with the Guggenheim Museum’s exhibition Brazil Body and Soul. I filmed New York's Broadway from the perspective of a taxi, capturing street scenes from the Bronx to Wall Street, in one shot, an unedited diagonal passage through the city. In 2002, the same video-sculpture was presented in Mexico City actualizing the first exchange between two cities, and then again showcased in 2003 in Tornio, Finland. This single shot stream depends on my full engagement—things line up, they flow. I have to be completely present in the moment: it is a search for an instant in the movement; it is accumulation; it is absorption of information.
Transitio's first video covers 17.3 miles of Broadway, filmed in one shot, 1 hour and 3 minutes, from a taxi's point of view, in March 2000
Painting 'Diagonal Through Manhattan', oil on tar paper
Drive-through starts on Broadway and W 228th Street
The exhibition opened in September 20, 2001
Video-sculpture installation at Paul Rodgers Gallery in Chelsea, New York Opened in September 20th, 2001
The video-sculpture is a free standing object, which is viewed from both sides. One side is a front/rear screen and the other a 'reshaping'. This 'X' shape transforms the video and a new symmetry takes place. It might be more suited to say it is an 'anti-sculpture'; in that rather than presenting an object it defines a space.
The exhibition opened nine days after September 11, in September 20th, 2001, last video image is a reflection of the WTC
In 2002 D/L was exhibited at Art&Idea in Mexico City, in 2003 at the Aine Art Museum in Tornio, Finland, above, initiating the TRANSITIO series, 'a global dialogue of a city within a city'
Installation at the Aine Art Museum in Tornio, Finland, 2003
14, 15 © Aine Art Museum
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