Oliver Gardiner
Gardiner´s work is about space and visual perception. The idea exploring new dimensions through single screen works. Considering site-specific works, video installation and exploring video defined by time. Experimenting with depths, angles, multiplicity of numbers within frames. The structure of cinema reveals frames as they truly are, but keeping their infectious tendencies.Cameras were arranged around a space/object recording simultaneously. I constructed the piece frame by frame combining the footage together to create a cinematic spectacle. The decision to study the space of a gymnasium is because I am particularly interested in the Floor competition. The objective of the Floor is for the gymnast to complete an exploration of space, showing a series of tumbling passes to demonstrate flexibility, strength and balance. This is performed on a twelve meter squared floor in a seventy-second time constraint. Rules require that the gymnast touch each corner of the floor at least once during their routine. If the role of the gymnast is to use his body to explore this space, my role, as a video artist, is to explore this space with video. I am using the inherent restraints of time and space that the gymnast is under. I have deconstructed their space with various camera setups for a complete study of the floor, experimenting with perspectives. The video frames are taken from a particular camera view and spliced back to back with the next camera view, in a sense it reveals another surface of video. The intense surfaces within the piece become a spectacle for the eye. When shown as single-screen projection work the multiple frames dominate. Having treated the original audio from the camera’s the same way as the image, your experience of the space is intensified.