At the Edge

three minute video by Sonja van Kerkhoff + Sen McGlinn, 2004

video still by Sen McGlinn + Sonja van Kerkhoff

Stills from the beginning of the video.

Video + Soundscape on the theme of the edge of the conscious or recognition.
Individual Sounds and individual images refer to the tangible but the focus is on the transmutions
- on the 'in-between' states of change, on surfaces and what lies beyond.

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Credits: Part of a track from the CD Stations of the Cross by Mark Laurent and Brenda Liddiard
(Aotearoa / New Zealand) www.marklaurent.co.nz
is incorporated into the sound.

Stills near the end of the video.

Related artworks

Day of the Daffodils, 2004, performance
Generating Plant, custom-made birdhouse form, 2004, shown in the same exhibition in London.
Just pour les oiseaux (Strictly for the birds), performance in on the edge of a forest in Southern France, 2001