Snow Grooming I and II – video artworks
During the March 2010 ‘Liminal Screens’ residency at the Banff Centre, Marcus Neustetter was struck by the context of the tourist town of Banff and its relationship to the natural wonders of the Canadian Rockies that surround it. The looped video artworks of the Snow Grooming series captures Neustetter’s fascination with the nightly manipulation of nature in preparation for tourist recreation the next day. To him the ‘snowcat’ (snow grooming equipment) represents an invasion on the landscape, packaging a natural wonder for human consumption.
Title: Snow Grooming I
Date: 2010
Medium: 9min 30sec HD video
Presentation dimensions: Variable
Low resolution video as .mov file: snow grooming I by marcus neustetter (5.3MB)
Title: Snow Grooming II
Date: 2010
Medium: HD video
Presentation dimensions: Variable
Low resolution video as .mov file: snow grooming II (5.8MB)
Created with the assistance of The Banff Centre (BNMI), Steve Woollard and snow groomer Griffin LaRose.
Banff 2010
Exhibited on ‘Ecotopian States’ 8-29 September curated by Jacki McInnes UJ Gallery, University of Johannesburg
www.ecotopianstates.net
ENTRACTE – a post performance film by Hobbs/Neustetter
http://www.youtube.com/hobbsneustetter
ENTRACTE is a post-performace film recorded during the AFROPIXEL FESTIVAL MAY 2010, DAKAR (SENEGAL) by Hobbs/Neustettter
Vision – Main Street Life
Digital prints, drawings and sculptural sketches towards a permanent installation on the roof of the new development: Main Street Life.
The public artwork aims to reflect on the aspirations of Johannesburg’s search beneath the surface through its goldmines, referenced here in the gear-head design, and the understanding of our planet and environment through studying our contemporary skies, such as through telescopes in the nearby Observatory. On looking through this proposed telescope on the roof of Main Street Life, the viewer will see a self-referential kaleidoscopic image. The artwork has been integrated into the branding of the building and design details and fabrication methodologies are being developed in further sketches and models towards realizing its production and installation.
The Visual Collider in Banff
The Visual Collider in collaboration with Nina Czegledy
Destination: Banff
Other Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada
March 11, 2010 5-9 pm
Banff exhibition overview low-res PDF:
visual collider banff (1MB)
the observatory in the making – solo exhibition
the observatory in the making
observation structures and sites of discovery
12 December 2009 – 23 January 2010
Marcus Neustetter’s third solo exhibition at GALLERY AOP pulls together various strands of the artist’s visual thinking. On show are a series of works that evolved from the work-in-progress sculptural installation at the Joburg Art Fair 2009, as well as various visual explorations of experiences in Sutherland in the Western Cape, which will culminate in his version of an ‘artist observatory’ to be constructed there.
The Visual Collider in New York
The Visual Collider in collaboration with Nina Czegledy
Presentation: New York
Artist book and projection
Thursday, January 7, 2010, 6.30PM
Space on Dobbin, 50-52 Dobbin Street, Brooklyn, New York
The Visual Collider premiered in September 2009 at the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Vela Luka, Croatia. At Space on Dobbin, Nina Czegledy and Marcus Neustetter presented the artist book of The Visual Collider, accompanied by a superimposed projection that collides Czegledy and Neustetter’s imagery.
New York exhibition overview and review in the ‘Williamsburg Greenpoint News + Arts’ in low-res PDF:
visual collider new york (1.2MB)