Ann Lislegaard, Norway: lives and works in Copenhagen & NYC
Time Machine, 2011 at Carriageworks
Lislegaard explains: an animated talking fox-like creature is projected into a folded mirror box.The fox-like creature delivers a stuttering account of a visit to a distant future. Throughout this story, the voice and the the narrative, seems on the edge of collaps. Words are repeated, languages are mixed and sentences dissolve; as if this grand journey is equally an uncertain journey into the very words that make up the construction of narrative itself.’
Oracles, Owls… some animals never sleep, 2012-13, 2 channel 3D animation with sound. 12:48mins, now at MCA Sydney. Here’s a link to this work in exhibition at the Biennale de Lyon Oracles, Owls _ Some Animals Never Sleep, 2012 – 2013
The animation is beautifully rendered, at times effecting a breakdown where the scaffolding is revealed in a flash of interconnecting irregular diamond shapes. The eyes looking straight at you and the voice dragging you toward the image then repelling. Working with the genre of science fiction Lislegaard explores uncertain and unreliable reports of futures, language and gender.