Tuesday 3rd Nov : Magellan’s invisible ship

Epson have lent us a much brighter projector, and we’ve added the sounds of insects—when we walk around in the space we play the images and insect voices.

The environment is an ocean of olfactory signals…..of ribbons and plumes of chemical signals arising from all matter. As Terrance McKenna says, communication is the rider and matter is the horse.

I begin drawing Magellan’s invisible ship– the signal that we can’t perceive because we’ve never perceived it? Or because we don’t have the receptor?

I’m drawing what I think receptors look like.

PRESS RELEASE :

Crossing Wires: Artist Raewyn Turner and assistant Leah Tooman at work.

A Bit of a Stink on K’ Road

Kathy Moriarty

There’s something fishy going on in K’ Road of late, and believe it or not, it’s all kosher.  A collaboration between sensory artist Raewyn Turner and Plant & Food Research scientist Richard Newcomb sees the pair extracting smells from 3-day-old socks in a make-shift laboratory at 295 K’ Road, and inviting members of the public in to associate colours with the smells they capture.

‘Crossing Wires’, an interactive art installation, is an innovative attempt by Raewyn and Richard to investigate the importance and meaning of sensory perception to people, including audio and visual perception, and a novel means of fostering the relationship between art and science.  Sponsors of the installation include Creative New Zealand, Plant & Food Research, K’ Road Business Association and Heart of the City.

If you’d like to meet these friendly people in white coats at Crossing Wires and have your smell detection tested, call in to the shop front they’ll be inhabiting on K’ Road from 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday or 10am to 1pm on Saturday, between 2nd and 20th November 2009.