Contents

About This Project

The Artist & His Work

Constructing the Exhibition

The Exhibition

Activities

Worksheet

Transparent Room is a site specific installation consisting of images projected onto an exploded cube, together with sound effects. Using video footage to describe a three dimensional space, Michael Pinsky transforms the two halves of the cube into an x-ray of space beyond the walls, ceilings and floor of the gallery. The time lapse views of events that have occurred outside the gallery space are speeded up and condensed to present dramatic and changing scenes of the adjacent spaces including the sky above and the Chicago Rock Café below Watershed. The viewpoint moves from panorama to close-up, to texture and finally to a single colour and the fluidity of visual experience is emphasised through the artist's use of changes in scale and pace.

The role of the viewers is essential, they become part of the work from the moment they interact with the Transparent Room. Pinsky aims to envelop the viewer in the exhibition. He explores physical immersion in the work at a time when public attention is focussed on the virtual immersion of art and entertainment, such as VR machines, that use new technology.

The exhibition is 'site specific' because it changes in form and content each time it is installed in a new venue. Pinsky films new video material that relates to each place and, depending on the size and shape of each gallery, the cube may be split in two using the walls of the gallery as at Watershed or built as a whole cube of vinyl.