I am focusing on building video projectors, giving me a chance to push video projection as an art form and figure out more about how projection works.
Provost's exhibition will include eight large-scale projection works that span his career, including Papillon, Plot Point (2007), Long Live the New Flesh (2009), Gravity (2007), Storyteller (2010), Suspension (2007), and the Divers (2006).
Appraising the economic projection work behind the pleasing sounding stats, of course, is a longer process.
"I did everything there, from dishwashing to projection work to bartending," he said, "everything they needed".
Although he's used interactive elements in projections for art installations before, this is the first time he's incorporated interactivity into his projection work for stage.
"Projection, Work in Situ," consists of a spotlight shining on a wall covered with yellow and white stripes, as if they were a stage curtain.
The projection work was the idea of a bartender, Jeffrey Emerson, 36, who had been playing Beastie Boys videos since early in the evening and was planning to do so all night.
Silva's body of film, video, and projection work has been exhibited at various venues, including the Berlin, Hong Kong, Locarno, London, New York, Rotterdam, and Toronto film festivals; Anthology Film Archives Centre Pompidouu; Cinemateca Boliviana; MoMA PS1; Museo de Arte de Lima; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; and the New Museum.
Since then, she has had a major sculpture and video projection work, "Paradise," installed in the Piazza della Signoria and the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, in 2006; and a sculpture installation, "1280 Towers," shown in the Place Vendôme in Paris in 2008.
Hum was a good enough sport to do some projection work for us, so we have numbers to hold him hostage to.
The showmanship reminded me of the Blue Chip projection work of Doug Aiken.
