Les Aimants
  Coup de Soleil
  Phone Booth Project
  Untelling, retelling The River
  Seeking a Meridian
  Benevolent Asylum: just for fun
  Benevolent Asylum
  Reading Aloud & BookBUS
  Border Crossings
  Deadman Monologue
  First Love
  Bordertown
  Endless Summer
  The perfect future game
  I want to break free
  Dangerous Liaisons
  Paint Tin Fantasias
  Sleepwalker
  Blinded by the Light
  Burning Memory
  Approach
  Timeslots
 

 

Seeking a Meridian
 Galerie de Roussan, Paris
20 Sept – 23 Oct 2011

Exhibition publication with ficto-critical essay in French & English (2.6MB)

Link to video, Ice Time Desire

Seeking a Meridian examines the contradictions of the historical measurement of time, in contrast with its material reality and abstractions of temporal experience. In this critical moment of technological development and temporal human disembodiment this series seeks out the place of time, and its present relationship to matter and memory.

Amid these contemporary questions of time, Seeking a Meridian revisits and retrieves specific histories, such as the global influence of French devices and conceptions of time measurement, the historical conjunction of this history within the lineage of French revolutionary politics, and the social impact of the temporal structuring of daily life across western civilisation.

This work has been supported by Arts Victoria






The Metre is a solid bronze sculpture, cast from a piece of petrified timber, found by chance in a garden. Using the lost wax method, the arbitrary wooden measure is made into a copy of the 'original model metre,' based on the Étienne Lenoir prototype of 1799. The object embodies the decay of standard time measurement but also re-emerges from the earth like an ancient tool.



Speed of Light (after Léon Foucault), acrylic paint and inlaid mirror on wood, 2011 (above)



The wolf chases the rat, pair of found crystals, 2011 (above)

Longitude 21/21 (below)

This photo essay documents a 24-hour journey across the globe. The work reveals the difference between the time of travel and global timekeeping, experiencing it 'as the crow flies,' from the shortest to the longest day of the year. Starting from the Prime Meridian, Greenwich, the documentation commences at 12 midday on 21 December, and one photograph is taken every hour of the trip for the entire distance from London to the artist's home in Melbourne, Australia. Playing cards are used to record the time that has passed, reviving the forgotten numeric link between cartomancy, playing cards and calendars, in which the accumulation of all the cards in a pack totals 364.
 
 
Crystalline Time series, 2011 (below)    
 
 
Seeking a Meridian, photo essay, 2011 (below)