Colin Duncan :: video

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I Am A Thief © colin duncan 1998
Video Projection

Colin Duncan is a Melbourne-based artist whose recent video installations have explored conditions of blindness and sleep. Duncan's work often draws the viewer into a discrete environment where subtle visual and aural elements create an experience which draws attention to the very processes of perception themselves & endash; what we register as light and darkness, the sounds we hear in comparison to the voices in our heads. This new work explores also Duncan's interest in how we experience public and private space differently, as well as how they can become confused or merged with one another. In this work car interiors have been filmed surreptitiously at night, the camera acting like a voyeur to peer into and document a space we consider and treat as private, despite their being visually open to others passing by.

Interiors

Interiors © colin duncan1997
Video Installation

Interiors/room

Interiors © colin duncan1997
Video Installation

The sense that Duncan's interiors hover between representation and abstraction is reiterated on video as the interiors dissolve into and out of a slow pan across a pine forest. The accompanying piano sound track, composed and performed by Duncan, further subverts the primacy of the visual, encompassing the aural. An uneasy grasp of location and almost claustrophobic enclosure within the undefined interior is contrast against a sense of bodily and psychological liberation. The forest is imagined as an other primeval home of refuge, an immense space within which to fulfil a desire for intimacy.

10 to1 © colin duncan 1998
Video Projection

10.9.8.7.6.5.4.3.2.1. The human experience of deadlines. The endless countdowns toward celebrations, calamities and final existence. The sound track is of voices from many different cultural groups counting down in an ever-increasing mosaic overlay as the film leader cycles through at one frame per second.

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