I look upI look down
An outdoor video projection
A body falls gracefully through the air, clear kilometres from the earth: appearing to hover between falling, then rising again in a fluid dance that suspends and evades gravity.
In I look up I look down, the laws of science are dispelled as a figure is seen floating through the air without ever approaching the ground. Moving hypnotically around the camera, the body disorientates any sense of up and down, its falling motion transforming, at one point, into an ascent, buffeted by the air, toward a passing plane. The endlessly looping motion of this falling body that is both trapped in space and freed by it, creates the illusion that the artist is able to control time and space, if only for a brief moment. *Abridged version of text by Victoria Lynn for Deep Space, Immersion and Sensation at ACMI, Melbourne, Australia 2003.
Pernille Spence is an artist based in Scotland who creates installations and performance based works (live & to camera) using a range of traditional and digital media. She currently lectures in the Time Based Art department at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and has exhibited her work in festivals and galleries in Europe, USA and Australia.
Supported by Scottish Arts Councils National Lottery Fund, Scottish Arts Council, Scottish Cultural Enterprise, the Research Fund of the School of Television & Imaging Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Skydive St Andrews.