The Immense Ventriloquism.

The Immense Ventriloquism is a solo exhibition by TC McCormack. The exhibition encompassed a diptych of films, displayed through digital projection, a platform assemblage which featured a collection of sculptures and drawings by eight artists, onto which a series of animated pattern-motifs are projected, and three large fabric prints suspended in an offset arrangement. The film diptych is in a dialogue with the animated platform assemblage, the visual phrasing moves between and across the three time-based elements with a particular cadence and rhythmic structure. Each phrase or scene appears as a material configuration; their characteristics are distinctly different; in form, tone and pace. The term Ventriloquism speaks to the immediacy of difference, and in the activation of the other. This exhibition questions the boundaries between video and sculpture, materiality and immateriality, by foregrounding the temporal as much as the spatial conditions of sculpture, and valuing the digital surface with equal regard. As an unfolding act of dislocation, the animated pattern-motifs resist any temporal trajectory; in they appear to move in and out of time. This idea informs the project’s visual language; from a divergent fragmentation of surfaces, to the dissembling patterns, and an ungraspable slippage of content. As singularities within the assemblage, the selected sculptures have quite different characteristics, each piece is considered for how it effects and activates the others. These formal gestures are counterpoint to and within the aggregate, distinct and various positions on the platform.