Two screen installation, each
a 30 min loop. sound.
Shot simultaneously in London and Iceland September 2001. A remote
viewer is a person trained to focus and hold his or her sub-conscious
mind on a distant target that is normally shielded by time and space
and record information about that distant person, place or event.
The artist made a trip to Askja in Iceland and during this time a
remote viewer attempted to trace/locate him without having any prior
knowledge of the subject or his whereabouts.
The central ideas here are those of projection and reception and in
a way these elements become interchangeable. The remote viewer seems
to invent or project the landscape rather than perceive it and the
landscape seems to sense his presence. The use of the infinity
screen as the projection wall for the footage of Iceland completes
this inversion as it is the background on which the remote viewer
was filmed. It seems to catch the image as it is thrown by the viewer.
The two screens face each other and so constantly refer to this
mental loop as the viewer switches from one to the other.