Alastair MacLennan
Dust in Gust
Saturday 28th November 2009
2pm - 8pmAlastair sprinkled the installation, as left by Brian, with shredded paper and littered the room with odd shoes. These shoes had been collected from the local community. The seat of each chair was piled high with shreaded paper and the video footage of all of the previous performances was left running. This simple intervention effectively transformed the space, encorporating and respecting the build up of live energy that had formed it. On Brian’s ‘workmans’ table Alastair placed a pigs head, pigs trotters and four whole fish. The audience were allowed to freely move around the installation and examine its constituent parts at close proximity. Wearing the double vision of two pairs of glasses adorned with different lenghts of ribbon, Alastair moved slowly through the room or sat at the ‘workmans’ table. At times he wore one of the shoes on the top of his head, at other times balancing a six foot plank of wood with pigs ears nailed on each end on his head. As he moved gently the plank see-sawed across his head, the extended pigs ears straining to ‘hear’.
At one stage Alastair was seated at the workmans table, the plank with the extended ears swaying on his head. The length of the plank echoing the length of the table. Eyes closed, two long white ribbons tied to his glasses touched the table seeming to caress the splayed pigs head. Ears were listening and eyes were searching the evidence in the room.
