VOLCANO :: LYNNE MARSH

2006

Volcano

 

Volcano is a video installation of a 3D sculpture manipulated from original material  (Mount St. Helens)  that used Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner. The work explores landscape’s materiality as a metaphor and subject. Its dislocating effect using texture and motion, particularly its water sensations, stretches beyond the limits of its curved screen.

Volcanos, often inaccessible to humans represent a spatial overabundance subsequently becoming much more valuable as terrains for the imagination and for a possible performative acting out. The practice of translating a volcano into a virtual model and from this to an immersive screen-based installation is essentially one of controlling and contriving the landscape into an artificial kingdom with the viewers presence completing the process of exploration and colonization.        [Lynne Marsh]