The Swing

Claudia Hart The Swing, 2004 Video (color, sound), screen or projector, media player, speakers Dimensions variable, landscape orientation 10 min, loop Edition of 6 Music by Kurt Hentschlaeger The Swing features a plump nude avatar named Machina whose appearance is loosely based on Baroque painter Peter Paul Reuben s portraits of his wife, and personifies Rococo fleshy decadence. In this multichannel animated installation, the character swings on a seat suspended from the sky, set inside super Mannerist slow time. Her wooded surroundings ebb and flow at another rate, imitating stop motion, as years pass in a matter of moments. The driver of all of these cycles, but a driver scarcely in control, this female figure is a Mother Nature heading straight for what she suspects might be Oblivion. Video courtesy of the artist and bitforms gallery nyc. To learn more about Hart s work, please visit: http://bit.ly/p7eWTQ http://bit.ly/HPj3QU