The installation “Rural Vignettes” projection is a series of short related videos of apocalyptic dreamscapes reflecting nature and culture. The vignettes obliquely refer to psychological, environmental, and social-political dislocations set within paranoid, yet whimsical rural settings.
The videos were created compositing photorealistic 3D animations with digitally altered footage of rural New Zealand. I have also added a few subtle palindromic effects as a trope of nature (where in nature “most genomes or sets of genetic instructions, palindromic motifs are found”). The resulting effects create an ambiguity of scale, material, reflection, and perspective producing a believable but skewed setting that is both convincing and unsettling.
Music credits:
Wanderer Harold
Budd All
Saints Records
Translation Jason
Molina (Aka Songs:Ohia) Jadetree
Records
Bunkley’s work has appeared in many solo and group shows and is in
public and private collections in New Zealand and the USA. In addition
he has completed numerous public commissions while also receiving several
grants and fellowships including the National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship
grant, New York State artist fellowship, and the Rome Prize Fellowship.
Brit Bunkley is the head of sculpture and a lecturer in digital media at
Wanganui UCOL in Wanganui, New Zealand. Forthcoming solo shows in 2007
include exhibitions at Mary Newton Gallery and the NZ Film Archive -Pelorus
Trust Mediagallery both in Wellington New Zealand. (For more information
see www.britbunkley.com )
