White Flag Projects: Friday 6 April 2007
ChannelBone, the newest video installation by Megan and Murray McMillan, opens on Friday, April 6 at White Flag Projects and will be on view for two days only. The installation, a large wood and plastic construction in the shape of a life-size humpback whale, hangs from the gallery's steel ceiling beams. The video, placed inside the whale's "ribcage," features tango dancers, chess players, and veterans with spinal cord injuries in an exploration of life experiences that both create divisions and provide a passage that was not there before.
The term “channel bone” comes from two sources: Ovid uses it in the Metamorphoses to describe the neck or windpipe, and it is used in the Bible, in Job 31:22, as a tube or a shaft. In ChannelBone, it refers to the multiple meanings of a “channel”— as a technological, communicative, and geological term. The imagery of bones, particularly the customary museum-mounted exhibition of whale skeletons suspended from ceilings, is central to the concept of the piece. Traditionally, whales have been used as a narrative device for transformation. From Pinocchio to Jonah to Moby Dick, the whale is a vehicle that both physically and metaphysically transports a character to a new destination — in a way, working as a channel between two states of being.
ChannelBone
Two Days Only
Opens Friday, April 6 from 7-10pm
and on view Saturday from 12-5pm
Megan and Murray McMillan
blog: www.meganandmurray.com
portfolio: www.meganandmurraymcmillan.com
The term “channel bone” comes from two sources: Ovid uses it in the Metamorphoses to describe the neck or windpipe, and it is used in the Bible, in Job 31:22, as a tube or a shaft. In ChannelBone, it refers to the multiple meanings of a “channel”— as a technological, communicative, and geological term. The imagery of bones, particularly the customary museum-mounted exhibition of whale skeletons suspended from ceilings, is central to the concept of the piece. Traditionally, whales have been used as a narrative device for transformation. From Pinocchio to Jonah to Moby Dick, the whale is a vehicle that both physically and metaphysically transports a character to a new destination — in a way, working as a channel between two states of being.
ChannelBone
Two Days Only
Opens Friday, April 6 from 7-10pm
and on view Saturday from 12-5pm
Megan and Murray McMillan
blog: www.meganandmurray.com
portfolio: www.meganandmurraymcmillan.com
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