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The mesmerising works of Melbourne-based New Zealander Daniel
Crooks present an ongoing investigation into the materiality and
geometry of time. Through a practice spanning digital stills,
moving image and installation he plays with the idea of a video
recording as a 'volume' that can be re-ordered to offer alternative
yet equally valid visual readings. Crooks returns to his home city
to present two distinct works in very different Auckland venues,
both studies of the human figure in urban space.
Bledisloe Walkway Light Boxes: Open
throughout White Night, 12 March.
Two Rooms will be open on White Night, 12
March, 6:00pm - 8:00pm. Loop, a special film will be
playing in Two Rooms' media room.
Viewed from above, a major Queen St intersection allows Crooks
to turn his camera onto the flow of pre-Christmas foot-traffic in
Crossings, a new stills work for the public site of the
Bledisloe Walkway Lightboxes. Playing with the
pre-Renaissance pictorial device of spatial and temporal layering
within one image, the resulting images shift from eerily empty to a
point of over-populated saturation. Crossings is co-presented by
Auckland Arts Festival and Auckland Council's Public Art
Programme.
Two Rooms presents Crooks' stunning video work Static No.12
(Seek Stillness in Movement), previously shown at the 17th
Sydney Biennial. The measured actions of a man taking tai chi
exercise in a Shanghai park, drift, cloud-like, across the
screen. As the movements of his limbs are tracked through
their routine the extended, liquid forms trace the body's passage
through time and space.
Courtesy of Anna Schwartz Gallery
IMAGE: Daniel Crooks, Static No. 12
(Seek Stillness in Movement), HD, 16:9, 05:23 Min, Stereo.
Courtesy of the Artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery.
Read Art for Everyone, City Scene's
article on Crook's exhibition