The Appropriate Changes Having Been Made
timber, MDF, aluminium composite, sheet insulation, unfired terracotta, film footage, mini projector, found and edited GIF, vinyl adhesive, found website, photo on perspex.
all photos by Simon Mills bar 8 and 10.
“The necessary changes having been made” is the rough translation of the term “Mutatis Mutandis”. It is used to acknowledge when two situations brought together analogously are not directly comparable, anticipating and pre-empting the subsequent unpicking of a point in a counter-argument. As it is a phrase used only in reference between two states, it could be said that the non-specific changes are imbedded within the act of comparison itself.
The Appropriate Changes Having Been Made is an installation that is based on material, historical, ideological and digital anticipation and retrospect, and acts of appropriation that can occur in this anticipation. The work has different phases, with certain elements of the piece extracted and recombined for exhibition in order to play with this act of comparison that takes place between its components.
It uses reference points such as Hitchcock’s “The Birds”, an enigmatic artefact of the Humboldt forum in Berlin, filmed promotional material for the production of bomb-proof facades, impossible geological formations printed on adhesive vinyl, and a layman scientific website google-translated from Russian theorising the antediluvian world. Backdrop-making for museum artefacts and recreating a 3D state from a 2D image, is mixed with time-based material undoing (cracking unfired clay), which is contrasted with an edited GIF illustrating Kelvin-Helmholtz movement that is progressively slowed down.
As the work is open to change within its iterations, certain elements can be added to or removed in any future exhibition.
all photos by Simon Mills bar 8 and 10.
“The necessary changes having been made” is the rough translation of the term “Mutatis Mutandis”. It is used to acknowledge when two situations brought together analogously are not directly comparable, anticipating and pre-empting the subsequent unpicking of a point in a counter-argument. As it is a phrase used only in reference between two states, it could be said that the non-specific changes are imbedded within the act of comparison itself.
The Appropriate Changes Having Been Made is an installation that is based on material, historical, ideological and digital anticipation and retrospect, and acts of appropriation that can occur in this anticipation. The work has different phases, with certain elements of the piece extracted and recombined for exhibition in order to play with this act of comparison that takes place between its components.
It uses reference points such as Hitchcock’s “The Birds”, an enigmatic artefact of the Humboldt forum in Berlin, filmed promotional material for the production of bomb-proof facades, impossible geological formations printed on adhesive vinyl, and a layman scientific website google-translated from Russian theorising the antediluvian world. Backdrop-making for museum artefacts and recreating a 3D state from a 2D image, is mixed with time-based material undoing (cracking unfired clay), which is contrasted with an edited GIF illustrating Kelvin-Helmholtz movement that is progressively slowed down.
As the work is open to change within its iterations, certain elements can be added to or removed in any future exhibition.