Ice
Video Installation • 2001 • Designer*
Ice is a video installation examining burning memories, the creation of loss, and the process of forgetting. Live video is projected onto a block of ice - burning the viewer's image into the eroding space of memory. As a visitor ponders this installation, his or her own presence (through the form of projected light/video) adds to the overall destruction of the piece. Ice was displayed for three days in a temperature-controled environment. At the end of this period, the memory-as-image had burrowed a hole clear through the ice - leaving behind only a fragile, empty frame of ice.
Ice is a video installation examining burning memories, the creation of loss, and the process of forgetting. Live video is projected onto a block of ice - burning the viewer's image into the eroding space of memory. As a visitor ponders this installation, his or her own presence (through the form of projected light/video) adds to the overall destruction of the piece. Ice was displayed for three days in a temperature-controled environment. At the end of this period, the memory-as-image had burrowed a hole clear through the ice - leaving behind only a fragile, empty frame of ice.
*This installation was co-designed by Laura Lee.