Landlines (of time and place) in no particular order

Landlines (of time and place) in no particular order

Media art installation/ 2019-2020/ 7 channel

Distributed by artist

Utilizing Super 8 and 16mm footage shot over several years, much of it hand-processed then transferred digitally, the exhibition moves through a landscape forever disappearing from view, evoking the continual loss of the present. The multi-screen media art installation creates a meditative space where moments in time flicker briefly, manipulated by chemical process and the human hand to create a psychic landscape of time and place.

The artist’s central starting point for this body of work are childhood memories of a passing landscape viewed from the top bunk of her family’s camper bus. From that vantage point McCann spent hours imagining scenes centred on images that receded as quickly as they came into view. These just-glimpsed images stay with her still, a reminder that moving imagery is by its nature transitory and ephemeral. An impression once formed on the eye reveals only the moment passed. The title alludes to this notion of disappearance – of telephone landlines, of the railway and of filmed medium itself.