Rattle Array, 2019. (Excerpt)
16ft x 30ft projected animation. Duration: 8min loop, 1500x2800
Concept & Animation - Anne Macmillan
Audio Design - Lukas Steinman
Instrumentals - Sol Vromans
Installed in Halifax for Nocturne 2019, curated by Tori Fleming.
Rattle array, 2019
Rattle Array is a large scale video projection of animated scaffolding that continuously shifts its form. Situated between buildings, its movement reveals symptoms of an architectural existential crisis.
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The Lines are lost. Locking into familiar patterns that go slightly awry. They perform a repeated reconfiguration, a coping mechanism for lacking completeness. The limitations of their mobility are revealed: a planar shifting of X and Y with occasional drops, veers and vaults.
The posture is rigid, yet low in confidence... and compensating by dogmatically changing its mind. An unstable combination of certainty and self-doubt.
A support structure built to bend its form to function, but here, now, the Lines have nothing to facilitate, nothing to be informed by. Hollow Lines set up in some spontaneously invented order. An empty array that anxiously moves to fill area. The Lines cannot help but delineate empty space.
