10 March - 5 May 2007
Elizabeth McAlpine works mainly with time-based media and she describes her working practice as close to geology. She tracks the repetitions and gestures inherent in popular media, extracting pieces of found material from its archive, and repositions them in ways that reveal patterns and associations previously unconsidered.
McAlpine's exhibition at Spacex includes video work, a sound installation and sculptural and photographic pieces.
'Quintet' is a sound installation of spliced together coloured vinyl records that, whilst rotating, generate the illusion of three dimensional dynamic objects. McAlpine's selection of records, based purely on colour, works as an audio-collage, jumping from one track to another at 33rpm, just as the eye jumps from spinning colour to moving object.
Elizabeth McAlpine works mainly with time-based media and she describes her working practice as close to geology. She tracks the repetitions and gestures inherent in popular media, extracting pieces of found material from its archive, and repositions them in ways that reveal patterns and associations previously unconsidered.
McAlpine's exhibition at Spacex includes video work, a sound installation and sculptural and photographic pieces.
'Quintet' is a sound installation of spliced together coloured vinyl records that, whilst rotating, generate the illusion of three dimensional dynamic objects. McAlpine's selection of records, based purely on colour, works as an audio-collage, jumping from one track to another at 33rpm, just as the eye jumps from spinning colour to moving object.
