Endless Endless 2010

This is the movie from my Graduation show at Whitecliffe, Endless Endless 2010. It is dedicated to Tom Fraser who invited me to exhibit with him in 1978 at Photoforum Gallery in Wellington and Snaps Gallery in Auckland. The name of our joint show was Endless Endless taken from the Kraftwerk track of the same name. This movie is the track, the soundtrack is a reconfiguration of the track taken from the original vinyl. Also available on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQODNUWitWo

PROJECT #11

PROJECT #11 upstairs@the Public Trust Office building.

40 Childers Rd.

Gisborne

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belchers@xnet.co.nz

Gisborne showing of Graduation Show 2010

The basement of "The Winemakers Daughters" was the perfect venue for this work. I had subdued lighting which was effective for the projection of the film Endless Endless 2010 and gave impact to Deck Stack. The paintings responded well to the low lighting especially as the viewer was forced to observe them from oblique angles which was exactly my intention with these pieces. I wanted the grooves in the painting to be emphasised by light which was much harder to control in Auckland.

This show marks the completion of Project #10 and I now look forward to the next project.

33RPM

Rowan Belcher 33 RPM

Since the 1980s, the planet has been dancing to the tune of the universal trend toward digitisation. Images, texts, and sounds are passing from an analogue state to a digital one, which allows them to be read by new generations of machines and subjected to novel types of processing. (Bourriaud, 2009, p. 133)

The axis of this series of works … the production of transportable painted surfaces, is motivated by the performance of paint and sound, echoing the language of painting to incorporate flow or flux.

Paint endures and performs, crossing boundaries to reach incompletion. Now in the digital era, like the LP and the turntable, TV’s are obsolescent forms, digitally remixed techno tracks echo and juxtapose the analogue era.

Bourriaud, N. (2009). The radicant. New York: Lukas and Sternberg.