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versions of the Mutoscope mounted a single loop of repeated action
- a shadow of the four-dimensional "inconceivable figure in
Time" that the mechanism hints at in its form. This new work
offers a number of linked, repeated actions which hint at the possibility
of some kind of narrative resolution by the reader which will break
the cycle of obsessive, pointless repetitions - or maybe not...For
this piece I have designed a basic, easily-manufactured Mutoscope;
a simple, tabletop device. Each little machine is complete and self-contained
in its own right then, when arranged together in a particular space
and formation, combines with the rest to work as a new, distinct
and individual piece. The relationship of parts to whole is of a
kind of colony or swarm. |
Above: Crimes of Futility No.8 in the window of Paul Smith Menswear, Floral Street, London.October 2004. |
