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STATEMENT
For the last several years, I have created "cinema machines"
for intimate installations. In each tableau, a sabotaged household object
is fitted with a zoetrope-like projecting mechanism and a set of photographic
transparencies. Each hybridized projector presents a short cinematic loop
of a simple task or a gesture repeated obsessively. Like a memory that can't
be repressed, everyday actions from the home or workplace are replayed endlessly
until their accumulation becomes a statement in and of themselves. Carefully
crafted from toy-like items and furniture, each projector and its corresponding
imagery offers a technically simple spectacle for the viewer. The sculptural
objects frame the images, illuminating the complexities of compulsive behavior,
discipline, and non-verbal communication that takes place in these seemingly
routine events. By exposing the physical apparatus which drives the bodies
into action, I draw a parallel between this machinery and the mechanisms
of our unconscious: defense mechanisms, sex drives, thinking patterns, self-control,
dreams, impulses. As a stand-in for a human presence, brain, or psyche,
each machine generates and repeats a dialog of images for itself and the
viewer. Through this dialog, each being tells its own story and plays out
its own neurosis.
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Heidi Kumao
