Rubli via ferrata
DVD / installation 11mins
2006
Via Ferratta (Iron Way) is a system to aid movement around the mountains. It was developed during WW1 by the Italian military and basically involves the installation of metal rungs up otherwise (aside from using rock climbing skills) inaccessible mountainsides.
This DVD features video of a via ferratta climb on Mt Rubli - where the artist attached a video camera to his backpack whilst climbing the route and records the view below. The video presents a disorientating landscape of the vertical.
A section of via-ferratta steps is installed in an electricity training room advancement to the Wandelbar Gallery to create an added dimension for those wishing to view the video.
The idea of having to access difficult spaces to see certain artworks dates back to prehistoric cave painting where specific images have been found in very narrow and steep passage ways and dangerously accessed ledges.
DVD 11mins
2006
Taking the footage from Rubli via ferrata I re-edited to make a new ambient work called Vertical Dream. The mirrored footage presents a mesmeric experience - echoing the vertical worlds' disorientation and a suggests a transcedental experience.
Installation view at Performance.
Performance. Wings Art Project Space, Geneva, Switzerland. 2 person show. 2006 (Video)
Breathing Ground Coed Hills rural art project. Group show. Wales. 2006 (Video)
Flat pack vertigo Galerie Wandlebar. Solo exhibition. Gstaad, Switzerland. 2006