Light
from Tomorrow centres
on an expedition to The Kingdom of Tonga, where tomorrow’s
outdoor light-readings are broadcast in close to real time
through The International Dateline to today; specifically
to a lightbox installed in the San Jose Museum of Art in California
as part of the group exhibition Edge
Conditions.
The lightbox in San Jose
responds to fluctuations and broader changes in outdoor light
conditions in Nuku'alofa offering a tangible connection to
the future, a window quite literally onto tomorrow. We think
of the gallery component of this artwork as a romantic landscape,
which is both minimal and monumental; a space for contemplation,
a poetic void and an experiment in time travel.
The lightfromtomorrow.com
website documents the expedition and exhibition, while forming
the basis for a lecture given at The National Maritime Museum,
which lies on the meridian in Greenwich, London. It is part
of a body of work we are making that explores our relationship
with simultaneous global communcications systems and time;
a series of artworks that sculpt with time in real time.
