Van McElwee

Polychronon

452 video stills on 48, 8.5 x 11" sheets; push pins.
Also available as a 40" by 80" iris print.

Isolated stills from multiple video streams are seen simultaneously. The 2D plane of the gallery wall becomes a medium of new relationships between the images; a cross-section of a zone in which all moments are potentially connected. 2000.

Direction, production and primary postproduction by Van McElwee on all works.

These animations describe a set of monitor installations that were shown variously in the US and Europe in the 1990's and 2000. Venues include: The Kitchen in New York, Gallery Trabant in Vienna, Argos Gallery in Brussels, Art Amsterdam, Art Brussels, Scope London, Art Frankfurt,  The International short Film Festival in Lille, France, KunstZurich, Switzerland, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, and St. Louis University Museum of Art.