Mark Wallinger Curates – The Russian Linesman. image from exhibition in Leeds art gallery last yearHow to display a stereo viewer in the exhibition?
I have seen stereo views within the 'Gallery' twice before one being as you can see in the image above (which I ripped from a previous blogger) with viewers set into the wall all at the same height none of the mechanisms on display playing on the idea of looking through into another world 'thru the keyhole' as it were. the other occasion was in the Kodak gallery at the Media Museum in Bradford, the Edwardian viewer set in a semi ornate wooden case.
the physical involvement or participation of the viewer is essential to the affect i want to achieve, phenomenology, reception theory essentially the stereo viewer is my blank.
like Nicolas Maes curtain, (Kemp) and I think I like the idea of the viewer and the mechanism i.e the twined photograph set on it to be viewed as well, the image will be of an illusion of my making however the image/photographs will be in themselves be unaltered the only illusion in the actual 'image' is created by the eyes.
Today Gary made me think about how I could translate the space of the original image, or set into the gallery space, setting the viewer at my height would mean for most people that they would have to lean in thus physically engaging and bringing into play the idea that they are are looking as a scene as I would as if 'looking thru my eyes' so I need a Katie sized plinth/stand/pole.
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