![]() ![]() On/in the VR kitchen a female’s floating arm extends, as if from your body in a convivial (if rigid) sweeping gesture that follows your gaze. In front of each zone a chair offers a firm location from which to enter into another realm of the work – virtual reality re-renderings of the domestic sets that map directly onto their physical counterpart via VR headsets. ![]() The sound’s gentle presence changes how people often behave in this space (there is talking). Permeating the entire space is an ambient undulating soundscape accented by chimes. Walls, objects and furnishings are aligned by a hyper palatable colour scheme cacti and abstract geometric forms punctuate the transitions between zones. The Bottomless Pit… is divided in to zones that speculate spaces for living in order of walking there is a bathroom, kitchen and bedroom as well as a cube-framed non-space that annexes the expected flow. In response, four artists from Newbridge – Jamie Cook, Adam Goodwin, James Pickering and Paul Trickett – have worked together as The Occasion Collective to produce The Bottomless Pit of Outros an interactive installation that hosts paintings from the gallery’s collection within one of their Edwardian suites. Echoes of Abstraction II presents highlights from the Laing’s modern and contemporary collection, reworking a previous exhibition of the same name. The Laing Art Gallery and The Newbridge Project have combined to create an interdisciplinary exhibition with a difference. Adam Goodwin, Waterchimes and the Botttomless Pit of Outros 2017. ![]()
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