Art Response 11

Tivon Rice is a new media artist who works mainly on video installations. One such work is called "Between Here and a Kind of Fleshness." Three projected displays show images of a dog's bare teeth. The three images change throughout the progression of the piece. Besides the images of the moving mouth, there is also a serene capture of water moving in the darkness. Alongside these images are white subtitles. The substitles do not necessarily have anything to do with the images displayed. The image are also accompanied by sound of the dog's growls. The artist's site provides images and videos of the instillation but there is still a desire to see it in person. A projected instillation loses it's power when seeing it over the internet. This instillation reminds me of the installation projects that I worked on earlier in the semester. I believe that installation is now become a bigger part of the gallery space and gallery exhibition. It can be just as artistic as non new media works. This work was inspired by Eliot’s The Dry Salvages. It was created in 2009.