Extension Gallery is an experimental forum for testing new thought and practice in architecture. It is a platform for dialog between national and international practices and investigation of the relations between architecture and other disciplines. The gallery commissions architects that adopt a diverse set of architectural theories to design and construct site-specific installations that transform the gallery space with their work and allow visitors to explore and experience current architectural thought in practice.
Jonathan Miller: Traps
Traps curated by Jonathan Miller, uses television sets in several configurations within the gallery that induce visitors to engage the installation along a path. DVD players, connected to the configured televisions, stream loops of images to the screens. The clips displayed are appropriated from historical and contemporary cinema.
Each configuration and its associated images produce a specific spatial moment. They engage the visitor within a boundary defined by the interaction of images and objects. Sights, sounds, and sets make frames. For a moment, Traps creates an opportunity to observe how media produces space, as the real actors in the scene turn out to be not on the screen but in the gallery.
The exhibition was sponsored by the Extension Gallery and Podmajersky, Inc.
February 9th 2007 through March 31st 2007
