Jenny Holzer - Foundation Beyeler in Switzerland

Hands from above - Chris O'Shea

"Hand From Above encourages us to question our normal routine when we often find ourselves rushing from one destination to another. Inspired by Land of the Giants and Goliath, we are reminded of mythical stories by mischievously unleashing a giant hand from the BBC Big Screen. Passers by will be playfully transformed. What if humans weren’t on top of the food chain?
Unsuspecting pedestrians will be tickled, stretched, flicked or removed entirely in real-time by a giant deity.
Hand from Above is a joint co-commission between FACT: Foundation for Art & Creative Technology and Liverpool City Council for BBC Big Screen Liverpool and the Live Sites Network. It premiered during the inaugural Abandon Normal Devices Festival."

Extended cinema - Tate modern

"To acknowledge a hundred years of British Cinema, an exhibition of cinematic machines which aims to re-cycle the redundant mechanisms of the British film industry.By building new devices which playfully deconstruct the event of visiting the cinema, this alternative event is an attempt to use a hundred years of language in order to return us to the cinema's fairground origins, with its pure delight of physical presence and wonder.The exhibition consists of "filming machines" as well as "projection machines"; the work plays on the notion that there could be as many different apparatuses to record the world as there are different films, a challenge to an industry founded by the first mechanism invented one hundred years ago.These hybrid machines are sculptural objects in their own right, similar in some respect to the work of Jean Tinguely. The mechanism are both strange and familiar: a machine constructed from cinematic icons like lenses, sprockets, spools, light beams, celluloid, cogs, wheels and a silver screen.The viewer's ability to understand the machine's function is based on familiarity, but the actions of the machine run counter to expectations - in some ways anti-functional - not lending to the illusionist world of Hollywood. They demand attention in their own right as well as pointing towards the potential of a "total cinema" beyond the two dimensions of a solitary screen, and to the demands of the next century.This show is ultimately an opportunity to indulge in nostalgia with fanciful ideas of storytelling and illusion. It exploits the tactile qualities of photo chemistry, light and mechanisms, before the cinema of machines eventually dissolves into cyberspace."

Steve Farrer

Robin Rhode - chalk pipe

MUTO - blublu.org