Although this installation does not use projected light, it is included within this broad catalogue category as it incorporates light within the structure of the work.
Title: Three – Nine – 35mm (Alternative Document Filtered)
Date: 2016
Dimensions: 0.5 × 2 m
Materials: 35mm slides, electroluminescent panel, electrical tape
Alternative Document exhibition, Project Space Plus, University of Lincoln, UK.
The original location of each of the 35 mm photographic slides later used in the Three – Nine -35mm installation.
Development
A 35mm slide projection and digital hologram installation was included in the Alternative Document exhibition at Project Space Plus, University of Lincoln, UK, for 28 days in 2016. The duration is relevant.
Over that period, light from the projectors denatured the photographic emulsion on each of the slides. Originally opaque, with a clear line and rectangle, the dark background slowly turned pink, changing the outcome of the projected image over time.
Through these visible changes, which took place over the course of the exhibition, the installation became an unintentional durational work.
Here, the slides used are part of their own ‘filtration’, illuminated by the cold electronic light from the thin, inbuilt electroluminescent panel – a self-contained series of tiny images previously hidden within the machines.
While in the projector they intercepted light to form an image, in this case they become objects in their own right – bright rectangles made visible by ‘electronic’ light.
Detail of 35mm slides, electroluminescent panel and exposed wiring
Special thanks to the staff at www.elpanelandtape.co.uk for their help with the electroluminescent panel and electronics for this installation.
Wire detail, exposed transformer and power socket.