Agnostic Ceiling
Curated by Mark McElhatten
‘We told time by the factory whistle since our clock had drowned… An explosion of raindrops danced in the corner of the room where the roof leaked. Dust bubbling into foam, newspapers, unread books and the old concordance swelling excitedly as peninsulas of spilled ink and cocoa ran across the floor. We had lost our taste for prayer. Hungry for the rain as if it were medicine we stood mesmerized before the mirror. It looked like we were posing for a portrait made of falling silver and tears. We stood fixed as if looking at someone else, struck dumb by the song of the whippoorwill.’(Darcy Shreve – Gumball Arcadia)
Terra em transe. The human weather vane dances with the Elements. Undertow and Undertone. Hurricanes, floods and surging seas. Music by Lightning Bolt, Beethoven and the Soul Stirrers, Rick Reed, and Anthony Burr.
In this combined programme
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The Surging Sea of Humanity
A stereograph of the crowd at the opening of the US Centennial Exposition of 1893 turns into a movie, into an enormous rugged 3-D landscape. -
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His Eye Is on the Sparrow
Master collagist Conner creates a setting for the Soul Stirrers’ 1946 gospel rendition of His Eye on the Sparrow. -
