Crossroads

Site specific installation
6 cameras, 6 plasma monitors 42“, 3 computers

Year: 2008
Dimensions: ambiance

The circular wall of inner ring of the Meštrović's pavilion (PM Gallery) contains six air vents 80 cm in diameter positioned at a height of 4 m. The vents are intertwined with hidden channels behind the gallery wall. Two of the vents have exits on the dome.

Six cameras placed on the dome recording the traffic, the roundabout around the pavilion, are connected to six monitors set within the openings of the vents in the gallery. Each monitor shows a four-hour long time period.
One screen always shows the real time, whereas the other five show what happened in the previous 4 hours, that is, 8, 12, 16 and 24 hours.

Simultaneously:
Monitor 1 shows the sequence from 00.00 - 04.00h
Monitor 2 shows the sequence from 04.00-08.00h
Monitor 3 shows the sequence from 08.00-12.00h
Monitor 4 shows the sequence from 12.00-16.00h
Monitor 5 shows the sequence from 16.00-20.00h
Monitor 6 shows the sequence from 20.00-00.00h.
24 hours of a day are simultaneously shown within the same space.

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