have a look at Gabriel White
https://www.circuit.org.nz/artist/gabriel-white = Gabriel White
For over a decade and a half I have been making improvised video diaries—or "mappings"—which translate my wanderings through the urban wilderness into playful musings. Works such as Tongdo Fantasia (2003), Aucklantis (2008), Triangleland (2012), Oracle Drive (2013) and Around the Margins (2016) all feature voiceover narration, generally recorded on the moment by a distinctly alien translator, delivering humorous or surreal observations that also probe at less explicit themes.
https://www.circuit.org.nz/work/scenic-journey = Gabriel White
Scenic Journey (2022)
9 min 6 secSingle channel / Digital Video / Colour / Sound
White filmed this work at sites of industry in the Wairau Valley that were abandoned during the 2021 Covid-19 lockdown. The film opens with the central figure repeating a classically Sisyphean gesture, struggling to push a heavy dumpster up the steep inclines of an industrial carpark and repeatedly losing ground. As a reluctant bureaucrat, this feels kind of personal, actually. The dilation of time during the Covid-19 lockdowns felt slow, acute, and confounding, and often like trying to walk—or think—through mud."
—Matilda Fraser
Credits & notes
This work was originally commissioned by CIRCUIT in 2022 to be shown in Masons Screen, a public video art screen in Wellington's CBD.
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