Welcome back Tech Team fans!
Since the install of the forest for the Making of Mordor exhibition we have finally been able to see the wood for the trees (I apologise for having typed that rather wooden pun, I couldn’t help myself). The pace of life in the basement has returned to it’s normal fast setting instead of crazy fast. We have been busy de-installing the permanent exhibition, ‘Traced’ from the West Gallery to make way for the University of Wolverhampton MA show and then the Art of the Troubles, both of which will also occupy the East Gallery and the Contemporary Gallery.
After we took down Traced and the Portraits exhibition in the East Gallery the MA students and university staff descended upon the gallery and installed the entire exhibition on their own which left us free to catch up on jobs in the basement and to plan and organise logistics for the upcoming Tony Oursler multi-media artwork, “The Influence Machine“.
Image of “The Influence Machine” by Tony Oursler, (c) the Artist
This multi-media work is a huge undertaking as it involves 7 projections, audio and smoke machines for 4 nights in St Peter’s Gardens.
Videos of talking heads will be projected onto smoke, trees and buildings, their fractured monologues combining to make a confessional chorus of the mass media age. It will be as if the ghosts of our modern machines have been let out to roam the city at night (hopefully).
The Art Gallery will be open until 8pm on 31 October and 1 November and it will be amazing. Stay tuned for more…
Behind the Scenes with the WAVE Technicians 