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there's no telling how long i'll be here
single-channel video installation (1 hour, 49 minutes) outer space, brisbane, march 2017 "i, here, now, live out a kind of shared life with the person i trace on the screen, with a level of familiarity that enables me to empathise, to extrapolate." - amelia hine a post-midnight visual essay, there's no telling how long i'll be here captures the transitory shift of light and the accompanying change of mood in an introspective navigation of the familiar and prosaic setting of suburbia. adopting an almost but not quite fly-on-the-wall voyeurism, the feature length video work occupies the intermediary zone between human absence and presence – a domestic space populated only by unseen bodies in passing. 'this fringe time, night seeping into day, has formed the artist and is now formed by the artist. a temporal representation of a conscious exit from normative cultural frameworks; the pulse of the working week, the self-enforced bedtimes inherited from sensible parents. 4-6am is a desolate interval, outside propriety. the viewing of its occupation conjures a slow burn of thoughts from decadent grotesquery to melancholic introspection. perhaps this transmutation is the cyclically waning legitimacy of the other, edging back into conventional time spans and once again losing primacy, like giants confined to the witching hour.' - amelia hine |
documentation by llewellyn millhouse
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