PASSAGE TO THE NORTH
Lawrence Weiner, US 1981, video, 17 mins
WILD BLUE YONDER
Lawrence Weiner, US 2002, video, 15 mins
SINK OR SWIM
Lawrence Weiner, US 2003, video, 18 mins
INHERENT IN THE RUMBH LINE
Lawrence Weiner, US 2005, video, 7 mins
Weiner has engaged language-as-art from his pioneering installation works to his new digital projects. Passage to the North revolves around a reverse dialogue taken from Ibsen; domestic scenes of inquisition and conflict are astutely intercut with image and text. His recent videos combine animation, drawing, text and video footage into works that recontextualise the everyday, invoke new grammars and address the precarious relationship between knowledge, perception and language.