Defile
Susan Norrie
2001
In Defile the central image to which each network of particular
associations returns, as a black-painted cardboard box; a simple
shoebox like those used by children to coolect beetles and insects. There
is an obvious allusion here to the temptation of Pandora's casket;
curious viewers are enticed to enter the web of information via holes
punched into the lid of the box.
Defile explores invasive and unsettling possibilities within
the interactive process. Focusing on malevolent tendencies within human
endeavour, Norrie has constructed a circuit of images that have been
taken from documentation of environmental catastrophes. As representations
of bureaucratic blunders and mismanagement, they also reveal shortfalls
and errors within scientific research. Often, hope of a better life
turns out to be nothing better than hell on earth.
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