Liminal Narratives

25 February - 30 March 2003
Westend Gallery

Liminal Narratives is a suite of three works that invites the audience to create a participatory relationship with the work by developing narratives of/for the work utilising data and cues presented by the artist. The audience in creating a narrative for the installation undertakes the role of a player in a liminal space (from the Latin 'limen' meaning threshold). This transitional apace may be described as liminal because it is neither exclusively the narrative of the audience nor that of the artist. The two are interdependent. The narratives may be construed as a form of present past, a vicarious past, a constructed sequence of time, the liminal space between an event and recall; the memory of memory. The installation employs photographic material as a realist dimension to provide associational narratives and histories while mass produced objects are a tactic to underline the exuberant homogeneity of the 'everyday'. The synthesis of the constructional materials of luminary components and cut price mass-produced merchandise underlines a convergence towards contemporary cinema and the theatre. The modified and re-modified readymade and utilitarian objects possess no particular aesthetic quality and are chosen for their ubiquity rather than their specificity.