Spatial Reality (2018)

 

Looped video 5'29" (cropped clip from Planeta Bur (1962)), digital projector, media player, 3D analglyph spectacles, perspex case, plinth.

 

Dimensions variable.

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The failure of 3D cinema is inevitable as it draws attention to itself as an artifice, as fakery. Fake Art.

 

Commercial cinema seeks to create the suspension of disbelief – immersion in the spectacle – the submissive spectator sits in thrall to the industrial product before them – but the self consciousness of the act of wearing the glasses inhibits this immersion – the illusion is imperfect, discoloured, dimmed – leading to the production of ever more spectacular films in an attempt to drown out the inherent inadequacies of the technology.

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The cinema audience self-consciously wearing identical, ill-fitting glasses with heads upturned to the screen, becomes aware that it has become the spectacle.

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The illusion is further undermined as the spectator is constantly reminded of their presence in the auditorium and of the black frame that borders the flat plane of the screen.

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