Rebecca McIntosh
Rebecca McIntosh - ARTIST STATEMENT
I am an artist with a multi
disciplinary practice focusing on developing work in which my role as artist is
as a broker of a collaboration with community/audience/participant rather than
a broadcaster/maker.
Most of the work has been deliberately presented in public spaces, not in a theatre, not in a gallery, but on the street, in a bar or a tram where it is least expected and where there is no other defining frame from which the viewer feels they must relate to what they are experiencing.I am inspired to create surprise and spectacle in ordinary life to generate a spontaneous interaction within a moment between others and myself. I then try to capture this moment of genuine human exchange in film and photography.
This genuine exchange has been triggered by different sets of constructs within my site-specific installations that I "control". It's into this solid framework I invite the public/viewer/participant to interact with my performance bringing with them the element of the "uncontrollable", which I find so exciting.
More specifically in these uncontrollable moments what is being explored is the vacillation between the personnel internal space to the public external space of all those participating.
Through my on going body of work LOVE TV I have been investigating "The most private conversation in the most public space", the iconic power of the TV, the power of celebrity, what is truth, humanity and how we communicate.
My unique approach to getting my stories has made me a pioneer in the International movement of Urban screens media. My citizen journalism is as much a piece of art as it is a social commentary.
My work also explores the redefinition of feminine archetypes, which are embedded with a hidden knowledge the viewer accesses automatically from their psyche.
Much has already been said when The Goddess Aphrodite or a Madonna reference becomes part of the work. Once I have set up the premise of these identities, the idea is to subvert them into something new and contemporary or relevant to that time and space.
Most of the work has been deliberately presented in public spaces, not in a theatre, not in a gallery, but on the street, in a bar or a tram where it is least expected and where there is no other defining frame from which the viewer feels they must relate to what they are experiencing.I am inspired to create surprise and spectacle in ordinary life to generate a spontaneous interaction within a moment between others and myself. I then try to capture this moment of genuine human exchange in film and photography.
This genuine exchange has been triggered by different sets of constructs within my site-specific installations that I "control". It's into this solid framework I invite the public/viewer/participant to interact with my performance bringing with them the element of the "uncontrollable", which I find so exciting.
More specifically in these uncontrollable moments what is being explored is the vacillation between the personnel internal space to the public external space of all those participating.
Through my on going body of work LOVE TV I have been investigating "The most private conversation in the most public space", the iconic power of the TV, the power of celebrity, what is truth, humanity and how we communicate.
My unique approach to getting my stories has made me a pioneer in the International movement of Urban screens media. My citizen journalism is as much a piece of art as it is a social commentary.
My work also explores the redefinition of feminine archetypes, which are embedded with a hidden knowledge the viewer accesses automatically from their psyche.
Much has already been said when The Goddess Aphrodite or a Madonna reference becomes part of the work. Once I have set up the premise of these identities, the idea is to subvert them into something new and contemporary or relevant to that time and space.
