Rapid

Span

Jessica Bronson
Mariko Mori
Diana Thater

Bronson, Mori and Thater create moebius strip movies whose loops, cycles and artificial infinities generate time warps. So decelerated as to become mesmerising or sped up to the pitch of delirium, these works stretch out across space rather than through time. This temporal shift generates both wonder and boredom - an effect paradoxically close to the viewing of unmediated natural phenomena.

This is an exhibition obviously concerned with moving images. However these artists have dispensed with the cinema's notion of the static or seated audience. Bronson, Mori and Thater design their work for moving audiences with schizy attention spans. They emphasise a kinetic relationship between viewer and work, freeing the viewer to walk in and out of envelopes created by the video. This, perhaps, is one explanation for the appearance of an art which runs continuously, seemingly without beginning or end, capturing the viewer's attention for split-seconds and indeterminate durations.