IF YOU HAD FOLLOWED THE DIRECTIVE, YOU WOULDN'T BE HERE
If you had followed the directive, you wouldn’t be here is a project that was initiated pre-pandemic, which was postponed for a year due to Covid—19.
Nine tents are arranged on green rugs throughout three rooms of the gallery space which has been painted with a simulation of a generic landscape. Inside each tent, a survival movie is projected onto the walls of the tent, playing on a loop. The movies are Stranded, The Grey, The Edge, Cast Away, Into The Wild, Alive, Everest, Touching the Void, and The Reverent.
Due to Covid-19, the Roger Williams Gallery is closed to the public. staff recorded the exhibition walk-through video below.
My wife is so proud of me... is a project initiated in the summer of 2002. tectonic industries measured the grounds of the house in Wisconsin in which they were living and produced an aerial plan depicting the placement of the house, trees, pathways etc. A grid system was drawn up, dividing the property into 130 squares, each measuring 10 x 10 feet. From September 4th to October 14th, 2002, each square was systematically searched using a metal detector. When a metal item was located, a numbered flag was placed into the ground, and a photograph taken using a Polaroid camera. The item was then dug up and sealed into a plastic bag, with the date, time and position of the find recorded.In total, 519 items were found including a multitude of screws, nails, pieces of aluminium foil and bottle tops.
2020 - 2021
9 TENTS PLACED ON RUGS, EACH WITH A DVD PLAYER AND PROJECTOR PLAYING A SURVIVAL MOVIE
DIMENSIONS VARIABLE