YMCK 1; Re-production

Mark Barrow

  • Titles YMCK 1; Re-production (Title)
  • Artist Mark Barrow, American, born 1982
  • Medium mixed media on paper
  • Dimensions sheet: 48 × 39 in. (121.9 × 99.1 cm) frame: 51 1/8 × 42 1/8 in. (129.9 × 107 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of the Jack and Rebecca Drake Collection, AFI.16.2014
  • Work Type drawing
  • Classification Drawings

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Landscape with leafless tree and castle tower
Interior of a Gothic cathedral.
The video installation St. Cecilia comprises the following: two video projectors, suspended from the ceiling, each projecting separate (one left, one right) side-by-side videos that meet in the center. The videos are on two DVDs that play on Pioneer Industrial DVD players. Also hung from the ceiling are a pair of "Audio Spotlight" speakers, each playing separate soundtracks; the tracks can be heard clearly only when standing directly beneath the speakers. The videos are synched with a Dave Jones synchronization unit. The two videos contain footage of a choir singing, as do the soundtracks. All of the aforementioned equipment was acquired specifically for this piece, per the artist's instructions. A subwoofer speaker, placed at the wall directly beneath the projected video, plays the low end of the soundtrack(s), making the choir's voices audible, but the words indiscernible, as one approaches. A floor rug is positioned beneath the speakers, both to aid acoustics and to tacitly lead audience members to stand on it (and therefore discover and listen to the separate soundtracks).