Reece Terris: DIG
Schauraum
DIG
is a single shot video work in which the artist literally falls from the sky into the video’s frame, landing on the peak of
a mountain where he proceeds to dig a hole in the snow for twelve consecutive minutes.
While
referring directly to the relationship between environment and artist the piece restores the aesthetic and technical formalization
of early video works from the 1970s. Shot against the spectacular coast mountain range near Whistler, British Columbia, DIG
actualizes the artist impressing himself upon his environment, carving out a space to leave a mark of presence, passing and
excavation. Rather than producing something new and imposing in this environment, DIG performs a kind of recycling of media
and a reshaping of landscape to suggest that this kind of recontextualization can also be a form of production.
Reece Terris is a Vancouver based artist whose work alters the expected experiential qualities of a place or
object through an amplification or shift in the primary function of an original design.
His practice is manifest
through a variety of media, including sculpture, performance, installation, and photography.
curated by: Ruth Schnell
and Tommy Schneider
Events
Opening
24. May 2017 - 19:00
duration
25. May 2017 - 21. July 2017
Schauraum,
quartier21, Electric Avenue, MuseumsQuartier, Museumsplatz 1/5, 1070 Wien
