On February 20 and 21, "John WOOD and Paul HARRISON: Some Things Are Hard to Explain" will be open until 7:00pm. (Admission until 30 minutes before closing)
1. PERFORMANCE
"Board" 1993
Two figures manipulate a board.
"Device" 1996
Six devices enable a figure to move in six directions across the screen.
"3 Legged" 1997
Two figures try to avoid being hit by tennis balls fired from a machine.
"2 Wall Sections" 1998
Figure1 holds Figure2 up against a wall.
Up-right.
Up-side down.
"26 (Drawing and Falling Things)" 2001
Figure1 and Figure2 interact in a series of 3-dimensional diagrams.
2. ANIMATION
"Notebook" 2004
One hundred and one films
One room
One table
One hundred and one objects.
"Photocopier" 2007
One photocopier
One horizon line
One boat
"Blind/Spot" 2007
26 roller blinds
The same size
26 circles
Not the same size
"Mic/Amp (Apologies to Mr. Reich)" 2007
One amplifier
One microphone (swinging).
"500 Pieces of Paper" 2010
500 pieces of paper
500 thoughts
Illustrated
"500 Thoughts" 2010
500 pieces of paper
500 thoughts
Discarded
"Wall drawing" 2014
a frame
on a wall
falling
to the floor
"Grey Painted Chair" 2014
a room
a chair
in mid air
3. NARRATIVE
"The Only Other Point" 2005
The camera travels through twenty-four rooms.
There is a point.
There are twenty-four points.
There are over a thousand points.
"Tall Buildings" 2011
An office block
100 floors
1 color
1 person
"Semi Automatic Painting Machine" 2014
Everything's gone green
Yellow, red and
Blue skies
Airplanes and potted plants
Flags, charts and targets
Invisible
Visible
Semi professional
Semi automatic
Painting machine
"Erdkunde" 2015
Some things take a second
Some things take a day
Some things take six days
Some things take 4.54 Billion years
Some things take 16:04
4. FILM
"DIYVBIED" 2012
Out of town car park
100 vehicles
50 incidents
Fifty-fifty
"100 Falls" 2013
One ladder
One figure
Ascend
Descend
One hundred times
"Car/Lake" 2014
a car
a pier
a lake
a film