Engraved Plane (Field Guide with Coinage)
In this video, female performers handle a variety of the artist’s rough-hewn, prehistoric-looking sculptures. They stand in front of a 16 mm film projection comprising digitally produced rapid-fire animation that alternates between newspaper front pages and what look like treatises on geometry—emblems of the quotidian and the eternal. As the sculptures are moved around, they in turn seem to splinter off everyday objects such as scissors, washers, and bolts that dance around the figures. In the second section, a woman sways like a ticking metronome against rushing images of rocky terrain. Dense, multilayered, and willfully obscure, Vogt’s "field guide" charts the gray area where measurement and myth, positivism and magic are blurred.
Artwork Details
- Title: Engraved Plane (Field Guide with Coinage)
- Artist: Erika Vogt (American, born Short Hills, New Jersey, 1973)
- Date: 2012
- Medium: Single-channel digital video, transferred from 16mm film and digital video, color, silent, 9 min., 53 sec.
- Classification: Variable Media
- Credit Line: Purchase, Henry Nias Foundation Inc. Gift, 2013
- Object Number: 2013.172
- Rights and Reproduction: © Erika Vogt
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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