RAPID
Rae Culbert, John Fairclough, Maddie Leach, Daniel Malone, Marcus Moore, Otomo Yoshihide
3 July - 25 July 1997
Curated by Sean Kerr
A joint project with Dunedin Public Art Gallery
For Rapid, curator Sean Kerr commissions seven artists to produce new works conditioned to popular speed culture."The noise was so loud I didn't know whether the bullet hit me or not." - Arto Lindsay.
Daniel Malone's Terminal Velocity is a Streetfighter video game competition on the night of the opening. Dressed as Santa, the artist hands out pizza and gives away his artist's fee as prize money.
Japanese sampling maestro Otomo Yoshihide's composition Melted Memory II, a high-speed cut-up of samples from popular music and experimental music, is presented on a flash surround sound hi-fi.
John Fairclough's interactive work, A Total World View of the Uncertainty Principle, offers a virtual world populated by digital organisms.
Toby Curnow puts a brand new high-end computer in a glass show case; the computer screens a silent static minimalist html work: One Infinite Loop.
Made of faulty fluorescent tubes, Marcus Moore's giant sign randomly flickers the incorrect date "1998".
Maddie Leach's stack of speakers, Alpine Racer, delivers BBC sound effects of fireworks, gelignite explosions, warfare.
Rae Culbert 1960s Italian racing bicycle has fragments of car reflectors attached to its spokes. He also shows a digiprint of a perfect "doughnut" skid mark discovered in Christchurch.
