Degree Show

Degree Show 2017

‘To those of us who believe in physics, this distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, if a stubborn one.’ Albert Einstein 1955

I am interested in the concept of spacetime, the fourth dimension where the unidirectional path of time from past to future no longer applies. There are no temporal distinctions between past, present and future in the fourth dimension, just a ‘now’ that is relative to the observer what they are doing, their location, their speed and trajectory in space.

W3=0+Cn4Nc3

W3=0+Cn4Nc3 is a transcript of we=0+chance. It describes an interactive piece, where the participant chooses his or her starting point ‘0’ and engages in a performance contributing towards the building of a work with the use of chance.

It discusses the idea of a fluid framework where the coordinates are relative to the observer and considers the relationship between the direction of these lines in space and time.

Note about Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity: “It embodies a whole new way of looking at the world, a whole attitude to reality and our relationship to it. Suddenly, the rigid unchanging cosmos is swept away and replaced with a personal world, related to what you observe.” Bill Murray, particle physicist at the CERN laboratory in Geneva.

How it works

The navigation board below has 96 directions in space: Click here if you would like to read through the rules.

Strips Of Time

The following explores the idea of spacetime and its lack of distinction between past, present and future. It also raises the issue of relativity and illustrates how perception is relative to the observer and their doing.

These are photographs assembled in a continuum, over a wooden spool in a loop. Each photograph captures a slight change in an object (time-lapse). The changes can be observed all at once or individually and in no particular order as the viewer manipulates the strips back and forth.

From Chaos To Order