Come & Go

Come & Go was exhibited at The Lowry Jan 2016 as a prototype dual-screen, interactive video installation. It was installed in the Studio Theatre and ran alongside the first digital exhibition in The Lowry Galleries: Right here Right Now (Thompson and Craighead, Timo Arnall and Eva and Franco Mattes). This installation was the first stage of production, technical development and interactive testing. It was curated for exhibition as part of Everything Flows, Museums of Sheffield (June - August 2017) by Jeanine Griffin. The work references Edison’s early films of The Serpentine Dance made in the 1920s. Its subject matter and execution alludes to analogue technique, now reworked for new media. Filmed from above in high resolution slow motion, the image presents a contemporary image and point of view. The audience is detected by surveillance on gaming cameras, and through their movement, alter the speed of image playback from slow motion to real time. This creates a play of move and counter-move, enabling the audience to switch between that of viewer to viewed. The technique and aesthetics of the artwork considers the shift between physical and digital media and the edges of spaces. It presents imagery which references drones, flight, entrapment, states of limbo and prompts questions surrounding location, dialogue or combat. A collaborative artists print publication with artist-writer Emma Cocker (NTU) accompanies this work. The catalogue publication is available with review by Oliver Basciano (Art Review). The work was reviewed in Art Monthly (July 2017). The work received an honorary award as part of the Surveilllance Studies inaugural arts prize and was presented at the Surveillance Studies Biennale (2018).