True North

We went to the Guggenhein Museum when we were in Berlin and we saw the exhibition called 'True North'

I really liked the work of Stan Douglas in the exhibition. His work Nu.tka examines the colonization of Vancouver Island's Nootka Sound on Canada's west coast and the repression of its native inhabitants. There is an acute sense of melancholia surrounding the work. There are two speakers which are presented with deranged voices of the two opposing colonizers, their voices overlap each other as to make them uncomprehenable. They both speak of paranoia and fear.

"When the eye adusts somewhat, one sees that the picture is comprimised of two moving images that repeatedly overlap while moving in opposite directions. The artificial, electronic perception of nature is immersed in a cacophony of voices that only seldom and briefly coverge to speak in unison. During these moments, the picture grows still and a constructed image of a landscape emerges -hypnotically beautiful, distanced, virgin -only to then blue again and dissolve into a hallucinatory flickering haze of the sublime. Stan Douglas calls this efect an "uncanny apparition." The temporal divide creates and image that blends different wide and tidal movements and compresses time in a synthetic manner." Frank Waner.

I would like my work to have the same hypnotic effect perhaps... or at least that is something I would be interested in trying to achieve.