CLUSTER by PLUMP
Marcia Jane
Marc Rogerson, Philip Samartzis, Dave Brown with projections by Marcia
Jane
Cluster is a site specific installation of kinetic, illuminated
sculpture and sound art with video projections by Marcia Jane.
Cluster is created for the VCA Gallery space and comprises suspended
illuminated ‘pods’ moved by air currents. The air flow will be
triggered by motion sensors detecting the presence and movement of
visitors. Soundscape will be drawn from the sound of the pods knocking
together plus various sound constructions created by the sound
artists. For the visitor to the installation, the experience of sound,
touch and light will have an encompassing sensory effect.
Quantum mechanics is the branch of physics which concerns itself with
the subatomic world. Our normal, everyday use of language and
perception are irrelevant in a subatomic environment; nothing behaves
as per our everyday, human scale world. And, importantly, the presence
of an observer renders the observed changed by the action of being
observed. In fact, the observed entity only becomes an entity with
time-space coordinates by being observed.
Cluster will, using art rather than science, create an effect in the
visitor to evoke this quantum world.
Exhibition Dates 26 April – 3 May
Opening Thursday 24 April 6.00 – 8.00 pm
Opening night talk at 6.30 pm by David Paganin,
Senior Lecturer, School of Physics, Monash University
Performance by Dave Brown and Philip Samartzis at 7.30 pm
VCA MARGARET LAWRENCE GALLERY
40 Dodds Street (cnr Grant Street), Southbank
Melbourne, Australia
(across the road from ACCA and the yellow peril)
