Rewired rearview mirror with recorded live-stream video of the port Okinawa for a duration of 24 hours
10 1⁄4 x 2 7⁄8 x 3 1⁄2 inches (26 × 7.5 × 9 cm)
Rewired rearview mirror with recorded live-stream video of the port Okinawa for a duration 24 hours.
Originally shown at Maxwell Graham Gallery January 12 - February 24, 2024, as part of the group show "Cameron Rowland, Tiffany Sia, Christopher Williams."
“Antipodes II” continues a series of works that appropriates rearview mirrors, twisting a line from media theorist Marshall McLuhan’s rear-view-mirror-effect. “We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future,” Marshall McLuhan once observed. “People never want to live in the present. People live in the rearview mirror because it’s safer… they’ve been there before, they feel comfortable.” Suggestive of looking through a periscope, the rewired rearview mirror is suspended from the ceiling to show within its small frame a recorded live-stream video of the port of Okinawa for a duration of 24 hours. Originally presented in a group show at Maxwell Graham in 2021 alongside the work of Cameron Rowland and Christopher Williams, “Antipodes II” is part of a series that invites reflection on the tension between the sublime and contested landscape staged in the Pacific Rim.