The Campus is a brand new exhibition space in Claverack, NY. Embracing a collaborative model, the galleries have turned an abandoned former school building into a platform for dynamic cultural exchange. [https://www.thecampusupstate.com/]
The artwork "Who Gave Us a Sponge to Erase the Horizon?" (2022) by Goshka Macuga is a large woven tapestry located in one of the old classrooms, it has been constructed from red and green fibers and is thus a carefully composed 3D Anaglyph image. *
SCALE OF IMAGE
This worked because of the scale an position. The illusion created receding depth, where nothing projected closer than teh frame. The image created a window into an undersea world, it was like being at an aquarium. This is a useful example of well thought out streoscopic illusion.
I am experimenting with projecting within a space on wall at floor level: This image was taken from above (on top of a building ) and this view 'down' is something that correlates when the video is placed at the bottom of the wall.
*The title references a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche’s "The Gay Science" and the parable of the madman who declares the death of God, symbolizing the existential crisis and societal change. This piece features a surreal underwater landscape populated by activists dressed as sea creatures, staging a protest inspired by the UN Conference on Climate Change held in Glasgow in 2021. The tapestry critically reflects on the lack of substantial outcomes from political discussions on climate change, blending elements of surrealism and sci-fi to create a powerful visual narrative (Juliet Art Magazine, 2023; Kate MacGarry, 2023).
The piece is comedically mislabeled in the show: "Did you get the info of the Macuga tapestry? Who Gave Us a Sponge to Erase the Horizon?" (2022) LOL
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