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Jeff Carter:
Segment 2003
PVC, nylon, aluminum, motors, electronics
Installation dimensions variable
Courtesy of Vedanta Gallery
"The installation of Segment consists of a grouping of six individual kinetic machines, together resembling a grove of bamboo…The mechanical base [of each bamboo piece] gently sways the pole back and forth in a slow, repeating pseudo-random pattern.
Segment is derived from a brief moment caught on videotape as I traveled in Indonesia. The movement of each individual kinetic machines simulates, as closely as possible, the motion of the bamboo in my tape. This reconstruction of a specific experience, mediated by video technology, is deliberately and unavoidably incomplete, reductive and synthetic. Conceived of as a three-dimensional memory, Segment recalls only certain layers of the experience while forgetting others.
This and other current works continue my sculptural investigation of tourism, landscape and memory. Most recently, I seek to define specific locations as indefinite spatial constructs that complicate the certainty of "being there." Relying on the physicality of scale, motion, and orientation to extend and challenge the relationship between place, memory and experience, these pieces are part of a larger attempt to relate a fragmented travel narrative through forms referring to cultural simulacra, architecture, landscapes and souvenirs."
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