Christina Mackie The Judges II, 2011
Christina Mackie The Judges II, 2011
The Judges II deals with the notion of judgement by time, reflected as traces left on the land. Christina Mackie developed the work after visiting an extinct volcano in New South Wales, Australia.
Exhibition specifications
• This work consists of: watercolours,
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ceramics, inkjet prints, minerals, Red Cedar, Tulipwood, Walnut, drawers with tissue and watercolour paper, Polyurethane, Perspex, 6 Indian ink paintings, Hantarax monitors, Mahogany, glass jar, videos. An ACC technician courier is required for the installation. The installation is intricate and takes several days to complete. It is a miniumum install period of 2-3 days depending on access and artist involvement. The work contains many small parts which are vulnerable to damage or theft. As a result the work must have constant, dedicated invigilation and twice daily checks must be carried out using the inventory provided to ensure all components remain in position. All parts of the work are unique and irreplaceable. The installation must be shown in its entirety in one room. The artist can be consulted during the installation. The work is cased in 50 parts, for a full specification please contact us.
There is no hire fee for this project. As well as installation and deinstallation costs, we ask venues to cover insurance and transport costs.
Comprising of many and various elements, the installation includes two video works on monitors: Fall Force deals with the theme of time and the grinding down and flowing away of human endeavour; Planet considers the theme of landscape, earth’s characteristics and forces being as visible in a lump of mineral as in a whole landscape. It also looks at the mechanism of crystals being present in both scales, the beauty of earth and the simulation made available by contour map software. The ceramic pieces imagine replicating the forces that caused the rocks’ folds and cracks and these small sculptures are fired at the same approximate temperature as that in which the rock columns were formed. Judges II also unfolds as minerals: minerals as paint, as slip, as clay, and as glaze. Piles of mineral sand occur, and are funnelled, poured and flow between objects.
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