New Wing.   A Rehearsal for a Faulty Projector   (2011)

New Wing.   A Rehearsal for a Faulty Projector   (2011)

Damaged Optoma projector (with half the projected image missing) and screen.
Silent single screen video.
6 minutes.
Dimensions variable.
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New Wing.   A Rehearsal for a Faulty Projector  is a sculpture and its flawed mediation of a moving image. As a proposal for a new kind of play, the damaged half of a projected image becomes a new form of theatrical ‘wing’ (the unseen backstage area on either side of the stage of a proscenium theatre) from which performers are seen to appear and disappear.
It is ambiguous as to whether they are waiting, rehearsing or performing.  This dark theatrical space is regularly intercut with the bright, expansive, fluid space of a swimming pool and the edges of floating bodies.
The damage, imposed onto the image by the projector itself, acts as a modification of the stage, generated from the audience’s perspective. The projector reveals a record of performance and play whilst also concealing half of it as an expanded offstage space. The problem of a technological fault becomes an expanded dynamic between viewer, subject and the technology between them, the projector, precisely because of its flaws, transforms itself into a sculptural object. A device that purposefully or inadvertently obscures vision in order to frame, guide and channel it into new possibilities of perception is a recurring theme throughout Chodzko’s practice.

New Wing. A Rehearsal for a Faulty Projector (2011) was exhibited alongside Props. For memorising the gravity of mime objects (2011)   , Meetings of people with stammers to describe a fire    (1999-), In culo alla balena!   [“Into the ass of a whale!” ]  (2012) and Play, Play, Play (2011) in:
In the Belly of the Whale (Act III):
curated by Ariella Yedgar and Rosie Cooper.
Jesse Ash and Cally Spooner / Edwina Ashton / Adam Chodzko / Côme Ciment / Winnie Cott / Jess Flood-Paddock/ Anthea Hamilton / Donna Huddleston / Germaine Kruip / Jacopo Miliani.  And featuring Orson Welles: The One Man Band, by Vassili Silovic and Oja Kodar
Montehermeso, Fray Zacarías Martínez, 201001 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Araba, Spain

Prior to that it was first exhibited, (alongside works by Côme Ciment, Anthea Hamilton and Jacopo Miliani) in:
In the Belly of the Whale (Act III):
curated by Ariella Yedgar and Rosie Cooper.
Cartel Gallery, London

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Related works:

A ‘Haywain’ Moment      (2014)      
A Place for ‘The End’    (1999)
Better Scenery   (2000 – )
Flashers       (1996-)
Guide for a Parade with Two Masks   (2004)
I See Through Every Image. (A souvenir for Laarni; A planting template for Belladonna seeds), 2013  
Mask Filter   (2013)
Props. For memorising the gravity of mime objects. (Flood)   (2013) & Props. For memorising the gravity of mime objects. (Fire)      (2013)  
Props. For memorising the gravity of mime objects   (2011)
Turning Point    (2007)