![]() ![]() ![]() His films and drawings are critically acclaimed and, despite being stylistically avant-garde, humanistic meditations on the nature of the private and the public in urban Britain. Goodwin is a young, up-and-coming London-based artist whose work Above/Below was included in the 50 th Venice Biennale in 2003. He seems to be pleased with the effect he has created. He is doing what he does compulsively in his art: discovering how people interact with urban spaces. It is the opening night of this new installation and Goodwin is sitting to one side, watching the spectators turning and twisting as they try to take in all eight screens of his installation at once. We are watching Dilate: the most recent video sculpture of artist Dryden Goodwin. Occasionally, the eight screens pause on a single frame, just long enough for us to make out the smiling face or wary glance of a punter, before resuming their anarchic choreography. Suddenly we are in the middle of a dusty urban sprawl surrounded by a swirl of shoppers, masonry and vehicles. They hear the noise of a child breathing and for a short while are standing on the deck of a ferry, the eight screens having synchronised to show a beautiful evening seascape. The spectators adjust their stances in order to track the passage of each plane from one screen to another. We are standing in the centre of a darkened video installation surrounded by eight video screens in panoramic arrangement just above our heads.Ī crack of thunder inaugurates a succession of dissonant ambient sounds, the screens pulse and strobe - disclosing to us various abstract shapes, one of which is recognisable as a blinking human eye - and then they go black.Ī jumbo jet passes low over our heads with a loud stormy whistle, revealing a cloudy sky-scape filled with similar planes in various stages of flight. Interview with Dryden Goodwin on Friday 12 th December 2003 following the opening of Dilate at Manchester Art Gallery ![]()
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