Limerick, Ireland
Rob Hunter, Invisible Wa, VHS video installation, duration: 1 hour looped

Rob Hunter

b. 1972

Invisible Wa is a video work mapping an attempt by the artist to translate an urge to touch the outer surface/skin of a particular property in its entirety.

The event involves Rob Hunter using his bare hands to systematically navigate his way around the exterior of his mother’s home, a modest semi-detached house in Dundee’s suburbs. This behaviour is symptomatic of the traditional approach taken toward the relationship between the importance of the creative act and the presence of the artist’s hand. The activity then portrays a form of measurement, but of what? Whatever the terms of these calculations are (or will be), they are mediated through the implementation of a video camera, which witnesses the event from three principal points of view.

The intention was to affect the intrinsic nature of the building’s appearance without altering it visually in any way.

(Text: EV+A 1998 – Circus ZZ)

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