Arnold Dreyblatt
Turntable History
22nd May 2009 - 12th July 2009
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“Turntable History”, an installation by American media and sound artist Arnold Dreyblatt in the Small Water Reservoir, investigates the historical and social interrelationships of the place. A motor driven “media turntable” fitted with video beamers at the centre of the reservoir and slide projectors positioned around the space project text and image sources onto the brick walls. The material, the result of comprehensive research in historic archives, documents the history of the location fragmentarily. Flanked by resonance sounds from a multi-channelled loudspeaker system, a dynamic scenario emerges. Text, image and sound fragments move about the space – a multi-sensorial convergence on the history and present of the space which focuses on the mechanisms and the motor activity of remembering, enshrining and storing.