The Drive Out Cinema - Furniture DragsCentre for Contemporary Art, CCA Glasgow, Scotland 2006 Primary
content is about
Migration, displacement, destruction, loss and the turbulence
caused by aspects of relocation; whether enforced or chosen. Vital
to the work is the notion of forward movement. Shot
and produced at night, off the west coast of Scotland on the Isle of Bute with permission of the Crichton Stuart family (direct living descendents of the Royal Stuart Family, once themselves politically and historically displaced). The chosen objects created in the drag process are illuminated as they are damaged
and broken apart through forward movement. We witness various items of familiar domestic furniture - large
and small;
Beds, fridges, chairs,
televisions, cookers, washing machines, kitchen furniture,
pianos, ping pong tables, couches, vacuums, babies prams, bar stools, architectural drafting tables, bedroom drawers scrawled with intimate personal messages, desks, computers; all items cherished previously in peoples lives - dragged, destroyed
- now fixed on display - they reveal the intimate story of their lived experience. Constant to each Drive Out Cinema film - exhibited with the correlating objects - is the deep bellowing drone of
the engine and the scraping sound of the destructive process
endured
and undergone
by the
furniture.
The sound partly explains the situation. |
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Upright Piano Wood Small & Co - Manufactured in Edinburgh, 1930s Teak, mahogany, ivory, pine, ceder, sprung steel, brass, bakelite, felt, nylon/cotton rope Dimensions variable |
Piano (Detail) Wood Small & Co - Manufactured in Edinburgh, 1930s Teak, mahogany, ivory, pine, ceder, sprung steel, brass, bakelite, felt, nylon/cotton rope Dimensions variable |
Piano (Detail) Wood Small & Co - Manufactured in Edinburgh, 1930s Teak, mahogany, ivory, pine, ceder, sprung steel, brass, bakelite, felt, nylon/cotton rope Dimensions variable |
Fridge + Freezer Powdercoated mild steel, copper, aluminium, acrylic, nylon |
Bed frame + Mattress + Bedding powdercoated mild steel, sprung steel, pine and cotton |
Dryer Mild steel, sprung steel, concrete, powdercoated aluminium, copper, lead, acrylic, nylon, glass, rubber |
Bedroom Drawers Ceder, ink, mild steel, cast alloy |
Ping Pong Table Chipboard, formaldehyde, nylon, mild steel, plywood, rubber |
Dining Chairs |
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