Sheena Macrae, 2008
Among the things currently up at CCP are a couple of wonderful installations, one of which is In The Forest Of Images, Patrick Pound’s über-cute OCD scrapbook display. It’s at once funny and pointed, and speaks to, among other things, the nature of imagery in the media.
Also up is Gone, a new video work by Sheena Macrae which continues her Hollywood narrative experiment. Ostensibly playing with notions of time and its cinematic representation, it condenses the four epic hours of Gone With the Wind into a decidedly shorter five minutes of fast-forward, pausing occasionally to let Vivien Leigh live in a fleeting moment of ’real time’. While mockingly inverting the notion of time as recalled in epic narrative filmmaking, Macrae’s work also bares a visual resemblance to Pisstank’s awesome ‘temporal’ remix of NWA’s Gangsta Gangsta: a cacophany of noise, of beats and static that eventually give way to the most quoted moment in NWA’s oft-quoted history, both works in turn suggesting the manner in which we remember anthemic works – a blur that gives way to fleeting concrete memories.
Both works are up until 15th March.
