August 7 - September 10, 2022
From Common Space:
“COMMON SPACE is proud to present our latest Window Space exhibition featuring the video work of Chris Wicker
ChrisWicker sources from imagery consumed during the early 2000s to deal with concepts such as shared memory, trance, video consumption, and sensory bombardment through video, sound and installation. By manipulating, stretching, layering, and repeating sampled media, Wicker translates his personal viewing history into a hypnotizing experience for the viewer.
While crafting these compositions and being influenced by said past viewing history, analogue media, and intellectual properties such as Power Rangers and NASCAR, Wicker’s work provides insight on both past and contemporary media consumption, the affective properties video has and video itself through media sampling.
The footage used in Fully Restored/Special Edition is taken from the beginning of The Little Mermaid VHS tape. The voice of Ariel, Jodie Benson, talks to two CGI fish about the upcoming projects Disney has planned for home release, theaters, television, and maritime enjoyment. Fully Restored/Special Edition utilizes every instance that Jodie is on screen and meshes different scenes creating a somewhat familiar but off-putting image of a human face. With this,
the televisions are tapping into the concept of the television as a body. Producing recognizable forms in the format of television shows, news broadcasts, movies, and much more, the television has acted as another member of the family that holds attention, conversation, and comfortability for years. Even though this idea stems from television’s predecessor radio, the formal design of the television coupled with the recognizable forms broadcasted to millions
essentially classify the piece of machinery as another member of the family.
With this project, the concept of “television as a body” is taken literally. Separating the footage into two monitors, the face both resembles and falls short of a recognizable human face. It is in this space that the televisions acting as “members of the family” cycle between discernable and indistinguishable.
About
Common space is a creative co working space in Bartlett, TX. Located 1-hour NE from Austin, TX. Common Space provides studio space, exhibition opportunities and comradery to its member artists, while working in tandem with the community at large to support the arts in rural Texas. Please visit www.commonspacetx.ecom to learn more.”
Reception: August 7, 2022 | 12–5 pm
138 Clark Street
Bartlett, 76511 Texas
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