Carsick
Description
Several sections of old cars have been dragged into the gallery and electronically activated in some way - by sound and/or video. This piece was made in collaboration with Anna Gibbs, Brad Clinch and Helen Britton. An additional sound track of a rusty car disintegrated was conceived of and produced by Ros Bandt. The rear vision mirror has a miniature TV inside. The video is about memory and the processes of forgetting and remembering. Rear vision or an endlessly receding past. This piece is silent. The boot or trunk section is lit red to engage with the idea of the car as a body - a prosthetic. This section has a sound track and a TV in the floor of the boot - the road seems to continually pass beneath the car. Anna Gibbs wrote and produced the sound track in the dashboard. The sound of a car crash comes from the fender. Timed to occur unexpectedly but activated by people walking in front of it.
Excerpt from Australian Sound Design Project
Excerpt from Australian Sound Design Project
Creator
Farman, Nola
Gibbs, Anna
Date
1990
Contributor
Clinch, Brad
Britto, Helen
Rights
Copyright Nola Farman, Anna Gibbs, Helene Britto, Brad Clinch and Roz Bandt. The copyright of images posted on the ADELTA Website belongs to third parties and is included on this website by permission from copyright holders. Apart from any use permitted by the Copyright Act 1968 (including fair dealing) the images may not be downloaded, adapted, remixed, printed, emailed, stored in a cache or otherwise reproduced without the written permission from the copyright holder.
Genre
Interactive installation
Citation
Farman, Nola and Gibbs, Anna, “Carsick,” ADELTA, accessed November 15, 2024, https://adelta.westernsydney.edu.au/items/show/57.