TRIGGER

JORDAN CRANDALL

OCTOBER 25 - DECEMBER 1, 2002

Opening reception: Friday, October 25, 6-8 pm

Henry Urbach Architecture
526 West 26th Street, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10001 212.627.0974

Trigger, a new two-channel video work by Jordan Crandall, continues the artist's investigation of the relationship among military technologies, forms of seeing, and desire. With a running time of 18 minutes, Trigger follows two armed men through the shadows of an abandoned construction site as they hunt one another. Suspended between extremes of control and danger, the two engage in a tense and hypervigilant dance of predator and prey. Crandall combines lush 16 mm color film and video from surveillance cameras and military targeting systems, as well as an eye-tracked synchronization system that automatically aligns weapons with the human eye, drawing us into a world where the predatory vision of weapons, the camera, and the erotic gaze all intertwine.

Projected in Gallery One on two facing walls, Trigger invites viewers to move through the charged space between opposing images, unable to capture both sides in a single glance. In Gallery Two, Crandall presents a group of large video stills as well as a series of more intimate pencil drawings that diagram the structure of key moments in Trigger.

For further information, please contact the gallery at (212) 627-0974.