OUT OF THE CORNER OF YOUR EYE

JANE BARNEY

Exhibition Dates: 4 December 2015 - 13 February 2016

It began with a small animation for CAPO then, galvanised by a deadline, I found myself making a whole bunch of spin-offs, hip hop on the trot - searching, harvesting, cropping, erasing, obsessing, composing, flattening, saving, tweaking and twirling every spare minute like a mad thing, fragments of time taking too long.  

In 1960, the year I was born, G. I. C. Ingram wrote that: The process of "understanding" something seems to consist of building a structure of thoughts which links it to the great scaffold of ideas which our minds already possess.

This travelogue of fragments from Hobart, Melbourne, Ho Chi Minh City, Dalmeny, Kampong Cham, Canberra, Matabungkay, Cobargo, Las Vegas, Sydney and Darwin went into, and then came out of, my mind. I can’t guarantee any links to the great scaffold in anyone else’s mind, but I am so pleased people will see this in the black cube in summer. Coming out of that hard white light, they might be discombobulated by darkness then recombobulated by pops of moving light. It's dreamy. 

Ingram, G. I. C. "Displacement activity in human behaviour." American Anthropologist 62.6 (1960): 994-1003.

Image: Jane Barney A Spin Off (video still) 2015