Anaglyphic Adventure

Anaglyphic Adventure is partially hosted within a physical gallery space and partially on YouTube.  The gallery-based work consists of a high table, upon which sit three mirrors and six pairs of costume glasses. The glasses, employ red and cyan lenses to enable paired video footage to appear as 3D. Between the mirrors and the table-top, three QR codes direct viewers to videos made by me and hosted on YouTube. The work collapses without the co-operation of viewers who must not only use their own phones and internet data to access the videos, but also implicate themselves in surveillance capitalism by visiting my YouTube page and, finally, immersing themselves in my works (and worlds) by donning the costume glasses. Anaglyphic Adventures also mimics the overstimulating, boundarylessness of internet culture, fusing a kind of too-close intimacy with an overarching atmosphere of absurdity, and aiming to conjure the joy and/or panic that it can provoke. A further sense of implication is achieved with the use of mirrors and in the realisation that the glasses-cum-costumes needed to view the videos are the same glasses worn by the actors in the video footage.