Five-channel High Definition video, 3 channel audio, custom screen (dimensions variable)
Daniel Crooks Pan No.11 (cross-platform transfer), 2013 Five-channel High Definition video, 3 channel audio, custom screen (dimensions variable) 18 minutes 23 seconds Edition of 3, 2 APs Pan No. 11 (cross-platform transfer) is shot in the subterranean world of the New York subway system, the tunnels and platforms of this transitional space echo perfectly the preoccupations of Crooks’ exploration of human space and time. This work comprises of five concertinaed screens. Conjoined as a single form, the screens extend the dimensionality of the image beyond its frame. Navigating with the eye and the body around the folded surfaces, the viewer is offered a tangible sense of dimensions interacting at the edge of the frame. The works of Daniel Crooks suggest views of other possible worlds. In video, photography and sculpture, Crooks records, dissects, and reconfigures sections of lived reality. The result of the artist’s continued fascination with the physical properties of time, Crooks’ works are imbued with the rigorous elegance of mathematics and the gentle metaphysics of photography and the moving image. Remaining salient is the ‘concrete’ material of these ethereal, destabilising works: all that we view in his video works has actually occurred, and was simply documented by the artist. Nothing is digitally generated or added, only displaced in the sequence of time, enough to now offer a view from the wings of a usually assumed reality. Daniel Crooks was born in 1973, New Zealand and is based in Melbourne, Australia. He has held solo exhibitions at Future Perfect, Singapore, 2014; the Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, 2014; Two Rooms, Auckland, 2012; the Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, 2011; Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand, 2008; the Institute for Modern Art, Brisbane, 2008; REMO, Osaka, 2008; the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2007; and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005. Crooks was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, 2004–05. His numerous awards include the 2001 City of Stuttgart Prize for Animation; an Australian Short Film Award at the 1996 Sydney International Film Festival; the inaugural Basil Sellers Art Prize at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2008; and the Signature Art Prize, Singapore, 2011. In 2016 he will present the second annual Ian Potter Moving Image Commission at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne.