Video:
Andy Graydon - Untitled (Contour)
"Untitled (contour)" began as a study of the projection installation "untitled (band pass)". in 2007, Andy Graydon returned to his hometown of Haiku, on Maui, Hawaii, to create a body of environmental media works. finding a large pile of ocean-worn volcanic stones near his house, Graydon projected a single moving line of light down onto the pile and documented this projection in the field. After developing this initial field work into an installation (with five exhibitions to date in the us and europe), Graydon returned to this video documentation and found that by reducing the brightness to exclude everything but what the light-line revealed, a new dimension of the piece opened: its sculptural qualities now played in the image’s two dimensions, with the material of the stone seeming to appear and dissolve away according to the tectonic structuring of light.
From the notes to the installation "untitled (band pass)":
a single white line of video light moves slowly over a pile of stones and debris. it is unclear to the whether the pile is made from the raw materials for future building, or if it is the remains of a demolition or a structure’s decay. whether pre- or post-construction, the pile represents a position near the bottom of the arc of becoming: an entropic assembly of material either to-be-composed or decomposing. across this, the white line of light cuts a kind of index mark, a way of traversing the material’s topography in time.
The line traces the uneven terrain of the stones while simultaneously highlighting the textural detail in a moving section of the material surface. from one vantage the line appears straight, aligning the rough material to an ordered geometrical vision. when seen off-axis however, the material guides the light into an undulating ribbon.
The line of light operates dually, at once “playing” the rough material texture and form that it glides across (as if it were the long white cursor ubiquitous in audio software interfaces), while simultaneously being deformed by that very material texture and form. and this dual functioning of the line reflects itself back upon the material it describes: if the line is a cursor, the pile becomes the elements of a composition-in-process, while if the light forms a line of topography, the pile is its landscape, its given environment. it is into this space of oscillation between composition and environmental art that the work’s energies are focused.
Andy Graydon
Label: Contour Editions
Screening Project: ce.scr_0007
Release date: 05/2013
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New releases:
Andy Graydon - Unterwegs
Label: Contour Editions
Cat. #: ce.cd_0004
Format: CD-R
Release date: 05/2013
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Andy Graydon - Erased Cage
Label: Contour Editions
Cat. #: ce.onl_0009
Format: File, Mp3, 128k
Release date: 05/2013
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Arborea - Fortress Of The Sun
Label: ESP-Disk
Cat. #: ESP 5002
Format: CD / LP
Release date: 05/2013
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Netherworld - Alchemy Of Ice
Label: Glacial Movements Records
Cat. #: GM018
Format: CD
Release date: 05/2013
Link
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