Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art  
Whirligig
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2000 [daytime clip: 27 sec.]
[documentation of an installation at the Natural Light Window Gallery, 506 Adelaide St. West, Toronto, Ontario - on view October 2 - 31, 2000]

At the front of this gallery are two picture windows and a glass door. From the street, you can see the installation through the windows during the gallery owner's waking hours. It will be particularly dramatic after dark.

The installation has a foreground and a background. Two small sculptures, a hunter with a gun and a guardian angel, revolve in opposite directions close to the window. A cluster of figures is projected on a scrim in the background, a little like javanese puppet theatre.

A guardian angel follows a curious boy, who follows the hunter who follows the soldiers. Like most looped sequences, one pursues another in a continual procession of unfulfilled desire.

Production Centre: InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto.