3.10.10

Air Conditioning

installation view

   
  installation view


Trials in Shaping a Gleam, 2010.

detail

view from the street 




Hanging in Wait for the Blue Hour, 2009
  
view from the side

detail
in the breeze


Unend of Sunlight, 2010
detail
Shapeshifter, 2010

detail

detail
detail

27.4.10

"Qualities of Impossible Means" By Francesca Bennett




Qualities of Impossible Means
By Francesca Bennett

Entrusted with the task of a translation - to paper - of an as-yet-not-exhibited solo exhibition of new works by Tegan Moore: entitled Air Conditioning, to take place this August, in Vancouver, on Main Street, at CSA Space; I must admit at least an uncertainty: how to consider these objects?
(By this, not only: "how to consider these objects?" but also: "how to consider these objects?" and finally: "how to consider these objects?")
It is not yet that-part-of-August.
It is hot, and still imaginary.


How to consider these objects.
(Or: consider these objects.)

Blue, pink, green, yellow, white, grey, green;
faded, spotted, unlined, lined;
bright and dark and pale.
Wadding, wrapping, mesh, net, foam.
Solid, not-solid, soft;
cold, warm, too-hot, room temperature;
low density, high density;
affected.
New, new-ish, used;
in use;
crushed, intact, cut, folded and bent.
Rising.
Glued, stuck, held, cradled, cupped, hung, stacked;
slouching, bending, covering, yielding;
yearning;
smaller, larger, wider, wider, shorter, tall, taller, tallest.
Pretending, posing, being;
blocking, hiding, streaming, letting, obstructing, withholding.
Changing.
Damp, dried, sticky.
In between.
Higher, lower, lower.
Round, not-round, rounded;
around.
Continuous, contiguous, discrete.
Visible, invisible, illusory, questionable;
see-through.
All of the above, some of the above, none of the above.
Other.


How to consider these objects.
(Or: consider these objects.)

In situ:
as sculpture.
As instances, as actions, as illusions.
As: doubles, triples, single multiples; as multiply single.
Singly, together, three or two at a time.
As gesture.
Physically, physiologically, phenomenologically;
historically, intellectually.
(Humorously.)
Archaelogically;
meteorologically;
possibly logically.
With gravity;
and think of other objects.


How to consider these objects.
(Or: consider these objects.)

Tonight:
with refreshment.
Monday afternoon:
refreshed.
Eternally,
or:
later.
 

8.11.09

And laid him on the green

And laid him on the green September 12-18, 2009. Goonies, Vancouver, BC, Canada


And laid him on the green presents a selection of work from Vancouver artists Mark Dahl, Tegan Moore, and Lauren Scott, examining the manner in which specific objects and scenarios can be made uncertain through vaguely scientific methods and purposefully poetic choices.
Curated by Francesca Bennett




Self Storage and Non-slip Travellers
Styrofoam, non-slip tread, skid foam planks, thin plastic sheet, masking tape
2009


Tool for Gathering Colour in the Dust
insulation foam, Velcro, colour paper, adhesive instructional labels
2009 
  

 
Installation view 


Airy Duct
various foam, string, non-slip tread
2009 


Installation view (with  work by Mark Dahl) 


detail

18.11.08

Light Duty Filing for Diaphanous Supply

This is a selection from a series of small scale wall sculptures that sought to illustrate an investigation into subtleties of colour and surface in the accumulation of see-through materials and "invisible" desktop objects.







Work from series: Light Duty Filing for Diaphanous Supply
Zulu Art Wall, June 2008.









Value Display Box
Plexiglas and Plexiglas protective layer
30" x 12" x 24"



14.9.08


For No Light Stands Alone, Helen Pitt Gallery, 2007



Installation view for No Light Stands Alone, 2007


Press Release:  No Light Stands Alone

Helen Pitt Gallery: Back Gallery
Saturday, June 30 to Saturday, July 28, 2007

Like the Concrete Poet who tries to make words look like other things, Tegan Moore has set out in No Light Stands Alone to package light itself. As ambitious as this may seem, her discrete sculptural experiments appear to trap light somewhat less vigorously than the average atom or solar panel, bringing to mind a quasi-scientific approach more akin to wishful thinking than physics. Made from found and manufactured materials, Moore’s forms are contrived and geometric—clunky yet exquisite—offering us a palpable sense of her continuing research, even as the hidden glory of things is miraculously exposed.
Different from detournement, where objects are reused or appropriated to undermine an original message or purpose, Moore’s pairings of light and object instead elicit an inborn sense of camaraderie between constituent parts. Dramatic oppositions like real and unreal, the authentic and the fabricated, may be implicit, but here seem played down to favor a more earnest, meticulously-crafted, take on our basic, indexical relationship to nature and natural phenomena. In this sense, Moore’s sculptures perform the noble duty of poetics first and critique second, for if plastic and foam can approximate sunlight through the trees, or a cooler stand-in for a glacier, then surely one’s disbelief has already been suspended enough to ignore a latent critique of consumer goods (if one does indeed exist). One is reminded instead of an electrician, with voltmeter in one hand and a copy of Thoreau’s Walden in the other, dutifully testing sockets to bring about a revolution.
- Steven Hubert 






Device for Packing Rainbows
polyester umbrella material, paper, matte board
35 " x 50" x 6.5"
2007




Replacement Part for Iceberg     





Trials in Shaping a Gleam #1: Sun Streaming Project Board
corrugated plastic, installed on table and window
2007

 


Trials in Shaping a Gleam #1: Sun Streaming Project Board (detail)




Fill-Polar-Air and Extruded Light Pillar, together for some time and protected by the edge.
inflatable packaging, Styrofoam, extruded polystyrene insulation
6’ x 4.5’ x 8’
2008

 


Extruded Light Pillar (detail)
 




Fill-Polar-Air (detail)






Surface Protection for Underwater Imaginations
protective film, glass
dimensions variable

2008 
 


Air Organizer
extruded polystyrene foam
11” x 8” x 7”
2008





How Hard We Make Soft
wood, shrink film, inflatable packaging, reflective glass beads
28” x 21” x 14”
2008



 
Holding Light Value Storage 
2008