Amanta Scott

an interactive audio video sculpture installation
addressing loss, our environment and accountability.

Glove Forest features video, a surround sound audio collage played through speakers mounted inside glove-tree sculptures, and an evolving installation of gloves donated by visitors.

The audio collage is built upon found words;
the video: found visuals; the sculpture: found gloves.



"A uniquely imaginative approach to ideas and current issues which is complex in expression but powerfully appealing to audience of all ages.

The video which is integrated with Glove Forest is an especially effective device, due in part to the design of imagery that is layered in such a way as to accumulate meaning as it gathers subtle intensity.

In this work the synthesis of sculptural elements, surrounding sound and video is especially effective and appropriately moving."


David Aurandt, Executive Director/Curator,
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery





Exhibitions:

2003
Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Ontario

2002
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario

1998
Royal Ontario Museum, Ontario, Canada
Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada


art

Glove Forest

5 minute QuickTime video: 25.4 MB projected on a gallery wall or shown on a television monitor.

The video collage is features images of nature juxtaposed with footage of landfill sites, merged with semi-translucent faces of young and old expressing personal experiences of loss, the environment and questioning our role and responsibility.

50 second QuickTime video: 4.6 MB (alt QT video: 2.4 MB) demonstrates the experience of walking through the exhibition.

Drawing viewers through the gallery, the video collage’s haunting vocal soundtrack of arching melodies permeates the exhibition space. Walking amongst Glove Forest the visitor hears voices emanating from each of the glove trees.

Tension is created between the glove trees’ surround sound audio collage and the video soundtrack: challenging and engaging visitors to alternate between actively listening to the whispering hanging glove trees and watching the video. For the surround sound audio collage words were extracted from interviews with the public and edited into layered rhythmic loops on five discrete audio channels, each approximately two-minutes in duration.


© 2006 Amanta Scott
Revised: Tuesday, July 17, 2007