Green Thumb - Our New Time Lapse Work for April

Get closer to nature!

Green Thumb is a new work by Kotoe Ishii that will introduce a simultaneously innocent and disturbing intimacy to the public space of Federation Square.

Screening this April 2010, at Federation Square, Next Wave presents Green Thumb by Kotoe Ishii, our penultimate Next Wave Time Lapse work.

Adapted from the 1950s children’s picture-book of the same name, Green Thumb is a short video using photographic stop-motion techniques, created on a loop. There is no dialogue, just natural, ambient sounds. Continuing Kotoe’s long-held investigations into the physical effect of repressed emotions on the body, Green Thumb sees a series of repeated actions/movements in public space. Specifically, the video features Kotoe’s own thumb, shot in close-up, inserting itself into various holes in the urban landscape. As she does this, plants and trees sprout from the holes.

Green Thumb
5:30pm to 6:30pm every Thursday, through April
On the Big Screen at Federation Square, Melbourne

BLOG
Get updates, view videos, read more about the artists and write comments at www.nextwavetimelapse.blogspot.com

Next Wave Time Lapse
New screen-based work by young emerging artists
Every Thursday, 5:30 to 6:30pm, until May 2010
On Federation Square’s Big Screen, and various multimedia sites.

www.nextwavetimelapse.blogspot.com

——————
IMAGE: Kotoe Ishii, Sprouts, 2008. Video still.