Lucy Bleach – PERFORMING MOBILITIES http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net Thu, 07 Jul 2016 04:55:30 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net/wp-content/uploads/webFiles/cropped-PM_ico_02-32x32.jpg Lucy Bleach – PERFORMING MOBILITIES http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net 32 32 REMOTE VIEWING http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net/symposium/traces_gallery/remote-viewing/ Fri, 11 Sep 2015 04:45:51 +0000 http://2015.performingmobilities.net/?post_type=traces_gallery&p=811 Humans, like pigeons, may be drawn to a particular place throughout their lives via a form of deep magnetic attraction. In the work Remote Viewing, Lucy Bleach invites members of the Moonah Homing Pigeon Association1 to share their ‘sites of attraction’. The fanciers provide maps, GPS locations, verbal directions, and a small flock of pigeons. The members do not reveal why the site is significant to them, why they endure an ongoing pull towards it, as it is their own private magnetism.

Sanctioned by each fancier, as an envoy between place and magnetic pull, the artist travels to each fancier’s location of attraction, accompanied by their birds. A spy camera secured in a purpose-built harness is attached to the breast of one pigeon. On release, the birds leave their fancier’s selected site and, by drawing on minute magnetic particles in their beaks, navigate their way home using the earth’s magnetic field, as the site and aerial journey home are recorded on the video camera.

At the completion of all flights, the aerial footage is previewed in a one-off screening at the Moonah Pigeon clubhouse, (re)connecting the fanciers to their sites of enduring attraction. The footage then migrates to Melbourne to be screened as simultaneous individual flights, indexing journeys travelled and connections performed as persistent loops within the TRACES exhibition for Performing Mobilities.

]]> Humans, like pigeons, may be drawn to a particular place throughout their lives via a form of deep magnetic attraction. In the work Remote Viewing, Lucy Bleach invites members of the Moonah Homing Pigeon Association1 to share their ‘sites of attraction’. The fanciers provide maps, GPS locations, verbal directions, and a small flock of pigeons. The members do not reveal why the site is significant to them, why they endure an ongoing pull towards it, as it is their own private magnetism.

Sanctioned by each fancier, as an envoy between place and magnetic pull, the artist travels to each fancier’s location of attraction, accompanied by their birds. A spy camera secured in a purpose-built harness is attached to the breast of one pigeon. On release, the birds leave their fancier’s selected site and, by drawing on minute magnetic particles in their beaks, navigate their way home using the earth’s magnetic field, as the site and aerial journey home are recorded on the video camera.

At the completion of all flights, the aerial footage is previewed in a one-off screening at the Moonah Pigeon clubhouse, (re)connecting the fanciers to their sites of enduring attraction. The footage then migrates to Melbourne to be screened as simultaneous individual flights, indexing journeys travelled and connections performed as persistent loops within the TRACES exhibition for Performing Mobilities.

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