Wie Ange Ist Eine Inie? // How Long is a Line?
How long is a line? is a collaborative framing mechanism that aims to insight discourse around the themes interrogated through Make Haste, Slowly, an exhibition concerned with radical pedagogy and alternative structures of seeing. This dual-sited work, drawing a metaphorical line through Dublin, consists of a camera concealed inside a box mirror located in the Return Gallery of the Goethe-Institut, a German educational institute, on Merrion Square and a receiving monitor placed in the window of the proletariat surroundings of The Clock, a public house on Thomas Street. Through live streaming the workings of the exhibition's installation and day to day gallery events we decentralise the happenings occurring within the formal exhibition nucleus extending a duality of representation of the action and art to the viewer. This line drawn from one discursive space to another may be considered a vinculum, a unifying bond, connecting formal and informal sites of discourse concerned with the exhibition happenings or a mechanism of division that amplifies a dissonance between these distinct contexts. Extending itself through space and time How Long is a Line? operates in these locations simultaneously, centering the individual both inside and outside the institution.
Wooden frame, two-way glass, internet camera, vinyl text.