Eloise Hawser: Lives on Wire
Site-specific installation at the ICA by Eloise Hawser based on the life span of a cinema
organ.
I’ll be honest.
I’m not sure I understood this, but there were some interesting element which I
found rather calming. The centre piece a very slow moving mechanism called the
Burbey Wurlitzer which had various cogs and chains moving so slowly it took a
while to realise they were. This was somehow linked to the fact that the
ceiling was changing colour creating different atmospheres in the lower
gallery.
The best things
though was that I learned a new word “skeuomorphism” the process of making new
stuff out of old stuff or as the leaflet describes it “the potential for obsolete
objects to be appropriated and transformed for contemporary use”.
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