NYAB Event - "Spectacle Spectacular" Exhibition

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At Light Industry
Media: Installation

On the hottest day of the summer, Ben Coonley and Michael Smith planted a tripod-mounted camcorder in the center of the Light Industry loft space and made several dozen 360-degree pans to catalogue every square inch of the walls, windows, pipes, ceiling elements, furniture, fans, A/V equipment and miscellaneous debris in the room. They found hidden miniature treasures: speaker cables leading up and away to invisible spaces, baseboard paint blobs in the shape of trompe l’oeil mouse holes, lunar landscapes on the surfaces of massive cement columns and newly-installed sheetrock.

They zoomed outside the back window facing the East River clear across to the Statue of Liberty. Down in the parking lot an ice cream truck began its route and tested its loudspeakers, a school bus shook and rattled as it turned a corner, a tractor-trailer screeched to a stop, and workers unloaded crates of raw material onto a freight elevator. With each successive camera rotation, mounting temperatures conspired with site-specific demands of the loft and surrounding environment, eventually giving shape to a hallucinatory polyphonic program of films and videos tracking Ben and Mike’s idiosyncratic and meandering curatorial digressions.

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