Public Artwork
Will Is Was
Location:
Art Gallery of Hamilton, 123 King Street West, Hamilton, ON, L8P 4S8, Canada
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Artwork creator(s):
Skelton, Carl
Text author(s):
Skelton, Carl
Installation year:
2002
Remarks on location:
The projection used the plaza side of the old building (AGH) as a screen
Description:
Will Is Was was an outdoor projection/installation at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. The spherical object in the foreground was a modified lamppost containing a still image projector, which used the plaza side of the old building as a screen from dusk to dawn.
Text of the artwork:
We had to start somewhere
History:
Art exhibition at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, summer 2002. (Commissioner: Shirley Madill). Note(s):
Will Is Was was an outdoor projection/installation at the Art Gallery of Hamilton in the summer of 2002. The spherical object in the foreground was a modified lamppost containing a still image projector, which used the plaza side of the old building as a screen from dusk to dawn. Every few days, the image would be changed manually; over the course of the entire summer, the images added up to the story of a tragic accident: confused by the appearance of the place, and by an alien pilot had crash-landed on the roof, where it was being held down by the museum's unusually powerful time-distortion effect.
Artist's biography:
Skelton, Carl Document(s):
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