ECHT & The Gulch.
Citation Summary:
Williams, B. (2014), Artist, immersive large-scale installations in ECHT exhibition, Tramway, Glasgow. GI Festival 2014 (04/04/2014 - 25/05/2014); Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria (04/10/2014 - 30/11/2014); The Visual, Carlow, Ireland (29/05/2015 - 13/10/2015); Vestjyllands Kunst Pavillion, Videbæk, Denmark (12/10/2015 - 18/10/2015); and in The Gulch exhibition, Barbican, London (29/10/2016 - 08/01/2017).
- Submitting institution
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Liverpool John Moores University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32BW1
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Tramway, Glasgow. Barbican, London
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first exhibition
- May
- Year of first exhibition
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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1 - Contemporary Art Lab
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- ECHT and The Gulch are both large scale immersive installations shown at Tramway, Glasgow International Festival and the Barbican, London respectively. The ambition in both was to make video/interactive/installation experiences that dissolved the boundaries between the content and the spaces in which they were shown. To allow the viewer to become collaborator. In ECHT this meant the viewers were players in the presentation sneaking through a breached fence and sitting onboard a large bus to view the video work in the exhibition whilst in The Gulch visitors passed through a succession of immersive settings in which they could interact and perform, sit in a board meeting or talk through a specially modified stuffed goat. Events such as a YOGA class and Folk Evening also took place here. In both exhibitions. In both videos to engender a sense of chaos in the viewer, the scripts employed sudden changes in direction with discombobulating allusions which in turn required a multitude of differing video and animation styles to illustrate them. The exhibition at Tramway was well received in the art press and national newspapers. Iterations of the work were later presented at Fondazione Sandreto de Rebaudengo, Turin, Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria, The Visual, Carlow, Ireland, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Vestjyllands Kunstpavillion, Denmark and also screened at venues in Cairo, Paris and Tiblisi and more recently at Somerset House in London. The video work was later acquired by the Arts Council Collection and a private collection. ECHT was extremely popular with the public, and because of its multiple environments which offered unusual backdrops for selfies photographs of friends and children became popular on Instagram. Reviews in art journals include ArtReview (07/14) and Artforum (summer/2014) and newspapers the Guardian (07/04/14) and the Scotsman (12/04/14). The Gulch Visitor figures were 44018.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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