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28 - October 17, 1998 |
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For
the CCA Project Gallery Cerith Wyn Evans situates two distinct
elements.
The first, a reconstruction of Brion Gysin's "Dreamachine"
- a revolving cylinder producing a flickering light - said to induce
a state of lucid dreaming in the viewer. The second, a screening of
films by the radical founder member of the Situationist International
Guy Debord. "The Society of the Spectacle" is a cinematic
adaptation of his general text of the same name. On the one hand the
Dreamachine "the only object that has been made to viewed with
the eyes closed" explores the interior subjective place of the
mind's eye, the source of imaging. The film on the other hand - a
cultural artefact with it's own complex history presents external
reality as an immense accumulation of spectacles. "The Spectacle
is not a collection of images: rather it is a social relationship
between people that is mediated by images".
Cerith Wyn Evans stayed at the CCA Kitakyushu as professor of the
Research Program from September 1 through September 30, 1998.
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