Jonathan Schipper A Failure of Direct Automation and Rock 'n Roll to Appease the Gods 11 February - 14 March, 2005 Three installation-sculptures will be included in this exhibition: Opposition Slow Motion Car Crash Invisible TV as well as drawing studies for Opposition (see images below) Press Release Jonathan Schipper's first one-person exhibition will feature several recent mechanical sculptures including: Opposition, a horizontal axis with a harness at either end that holds a participant who controls the movements of the person at the other end; Model for Slow Motion Car Crash, in which two cars are forced together until smashed so slowly over the course of one month that their movement is invisible, and; Invisible Television, a circular, "see-through" television monitor. Of Opposition, Kelly King writes Jonathan makes mechanical paradoxes. Opposition strives to reverse technology's hold on us, to shake us out of its grasp, back into the body. It is meant to enact anti-progress upon us, to entropy its own effects. Its motto is anti-technology. More reconciled than Tinguely's self-destroying machine, it is a machine of contrition, working to erase its wrongs. (King, 2005) Schipper sees "Opposition as a figurative sculpture. But, instead of traditional figurative sculpture where you're carving a person out of stone, I am doing the inverse. I am trying to take a person and turn them into a thing." (Schipper, 2005)
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