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Indepth Arts News:
"Translating: Denmark to Boston, an Installation by Line Bruntse and Andy Mauery"
2001-03-07 until 2001-03-31
Mobius
Boston, MA,
USA
This exhibit is part of an ongoing project begun in Denmark in the summer of 2000, with the exhibit
Sammenfojning/Connecting. Line is from Denmark originally, now Boston, and Andy is from Bangor, Maine. The
first exhibit included a collaborative installation as well as separate works, all of which were created at the Erik
Nyholm Foundation studio during a 7 week stay. The works are based on documenting and collecting, combining
data and experience, much like the process of mapping, but with a 3 dimensional outcome in the gallery. At the time
of writing this, installation as well as audio and video will make up Translating: Denmark to Boston at Mobius.
Line Bruntse - What am I doingNULL
I ask myself sitting in Andy's
Maine loft while it is getting dark
outside. We are talking about our
upcoming installation at Mobius
and have decided to record our
individual thoughts as they concern
the project at this point.
In my case I am using systems and
organization to interpret and
understand my place. Breaking
things down into their minute
details (such as my preferred
stretch of beach) is a way of
actively rooting myself to a
location. In this way I let the
physical evidence of this process
become a way to share perception,
but also to anchor myself in time
and place for lack of a place to call
home.
The systems involved in my
translating the unseen aspects of
place into physical form, become a
product of a mapping process gone
astray. By its nature, this
organizing, and sorting, of evidence
provides a visual anchoring point in
the exhibit.
Andy Mauery - Early November notes:
I come to Boston several times a year, and the
roads coming into and around South Boston and
Fort Point are never the same. I am unable to get a
clear fix on many landmarks, the construction
zones keep moving. So for me, this city which
should be a solid (Puritan) rock, is a lively shifting
system of levels; when I get to my destination I
feel accomplished to have found it, and surprised
that despite all the surrounding changes I find the
place itself THE SAME, RECOGNIZABLE.
My mind looks for a sense of home or place
through people: exchange. I want to hear stories,
watch faces, witness how people construct or
ignore the slender moments of their day.
Boston seems to me to be: educated . expensive .
people offer up information about where they're
from . quietly urban - no need to run you down in
self important pedestrian warfare . not many good
drivers.
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