The Sounding
Loose projects
October 19 – November 4 2006
Philipa Veitch, > 2005 < / Double-bound book, Two sets of newspaper articles from the year 2005 photocopied onto A3 paper and hard bound in reverse chronological order from Dec – Jan into a double book, MDF board, aluminium rack, acrylic, Dimensions variable, 2006
Philipa Veitch, > 2005 < / Double-bound book, Two sets of newspaper articles from the year 2005 photocopied onto A3 paper and hard bound in reverse chronological order from Dec – Jan into a double book, MDF board, aluminium rack, acrylic, Dimensions variable, 2006
Philipa Veitch, Decay curve, DV/DVD, colour, duration 142′, acrylic, plastic table, monitor, DVD player, Dimensions variable, 2006
Philipa Veitch, Half the atoms / Others won’t forget / Black hole, Polyester, ink, dowling, string, Dimensions variable, 2006
Philipa Veitch, Half the atoms / Others won’t forget / Black hole, Polyester, ink, dowling, string, Dimensions variable, 2006
Philipa Veitch, Decay curve, production still, colour, 142′, DV/DVD, DVD player, monitor, headphones, plastic table, acrylic, dimensions variable, 12 interviews relating to the years 2005-1994, 2006 (see Decay curve page for more images and text)
“But today responsibility’s centre of gravity is not in people but in circumstances. Have we not noticed that experiences have made themselves independent of people?….A world of qualities without a man has arisen, of experiences without the person who experiences them, and it almost looks as though ideally private experience is a thing of the past…?” Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualties
The impulse behind the exhibition The Sounding has come from my longstanding interest and investigations into the complex interrelations between psychological, cultural and natural phenomena, or what could be more simply described as ‘experience’.
Elaborating on our ambiguous apprehension of temporality and memory, The Sounding explores the radical temporal disparities between our finite and fragmented experience of duration and the vastness of geological and cosmological time, as well as the phenomenological interstice that exists between the realm of ‘private’ experience and that of ‘national’ and ‘world’ events. The Sounding investigates our perpetually inadequate attempts to dissolve these boundaries through various forms of cultural and psychic representation.
Philipa Veitch
