The Knife, The Chair, and the Hill

The Knife

I felt that The Knife was quite an extraordinarily boring piece to watch. It is nothing more than a knife lying on a flat surface of some kind, with lights of varying colours altering the way we perceive the knife. The colours being shone on the knife alternate between a hot red and a cold blue colour, before one final transference into yellow. As is, the knife is used as nothing more than a reflective element. The functionality of the knife as a tool used to slice has been removed, leaving it only as an object to look at. Presenting the knife as Goldstein did alters the viewer's perception of the knife from being a potentially dangerous tool into a benign piece of art.

The Chair

Similarly to The Knife, Goldstein chooses yet another mundane, everyday object as the subject as this piece. The chair is completely isolated in the piece. Throughout the passage of the piece, brightly coloured leaves fall onto and around the chair. This gives the viewer the impression that the chair goes unused for an extended period of time. The chair takes on the role of this forsaken and forgotten object. The use of the object as a place to sit and relax was forgotten.

Gary Hill

-Mediations
The connection of the audio with the actions occurring in the piece was quite interesting to watch. I felt as if Hill was trying to make the point of how an individual's voice could be lost among many and how an idea could do the same.
- Why Do Things Get in a Muddle?
This work demonstrates how the arrangement of language can can have an effect on the meaning of it, such as how "Come on petunia" can become "once upon a time."
- Incidence of Catastrophe
I feel as if the work comments on how even language can limit the expressions of a person, yet without a language, communication between two persons would be severely limited.