Transvoyeur
Programme 2006
Part of the Independents Liverpool Biennial 2006
October 2006 - November 2006
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Written
by Gaynor Evelyn Sweeney (Transvoyeur)
07 October 2006
During
the preparations of the first live art event at the
View Two Gallery (Liverpool, England) of the Performance
Art Platform, I and other artists from the Transvoyeur
group were fortunate to meet with Chris Boyd and other
artists from the Chaosmos Exhibition on the top floor
of the gallery. This exhibition was exceptional and
beguiled most of the audience who viewed it, including
myself. As an artist, I have worked with a multitude
of media from robotics, holographic, digital media and
performance, but the digital short films by Boyd captivated
me. The work at the Chaosmos Exhibition was set on ‘addresses
the complex inter-relationships between creation and
destruction’ (October 2006).
Deep
undertones resonate through the space, pulsating underneath
our senses, as if from below. Momentary classical strings
gently reverberate. The visualisations are a fusion
of fractalised bodies undulating through the spatiality
and temporality of time.
The
piece is profound and stirring and cuts into our preconceptions
of origin and evolution, not only of ourselves, the
human creature, but from the inaugural onset of time
itself, the planet. The imagery is sensual and emotive.
It imbues a sense of our physical entity and existence,
where we have come from and ultimately leaves one with
a sense of reflection and retrospective. An awareness
of the moment, now, as if standing on the precipice
of contemplation of where humanity is going. It is both
sexual and spiritual, the fundamentals that drive life
forward. It is provocative, yet intrinsic, and touches
on the core elements of human consciousness and perception
of time and space and our roles within the socio-historical
edifice.
As
I watched the writhing and cascading bodies, genomic
re-reproduction of digitalised forms. I see my heritage,
my self and my progeny in that one moment. It captures
the viewer, but gets inside and holds them at that moment
where time seems to stand still. The split second of
awakenings and realisations cognitive, as ‘I think,
therefore I am’ (Descartes), E = mc² (Einstein);
'Eureka' (Archimedes); 'Now, I am become Death, the
destroyer of worlds' (Oppenheimer). The sentience is
embodied in Boyd’s visualisations.
As
a young and upcoming artist, Boyd is extraordinary.
Indeed the standard of art in the Chaomos exhibition
inspirational. My last thought after viewing his work
was ‘this young man will go far’. His work
is good, in the meaning of gut instinct and art criticism,
‘good’. For all my explications here of
trying to elucidate his work all seem futile and I would
recommend you go to view it yourself.
Boyd
is Boydism.
For
future exhibitions of Boyd go to
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1440085246
