Bodhi Obfuscatus (Space-Baby)
Re-Imagining ASIA - Exhibition

Walsall, England
February 13-May 4 2009
The New Art Gallery Walsall

Using contemporary technology, the piece by Michael Joo in collaboration with Brooks Atwood explores the texture and nature of the stone material used in a 3rd century Buddha, which was created in the Gandharan area of Pakistan. A halo of 48 surveillance cameras trained on the sculpture lit with fiber-optic lights will cast a series of projections onto walls and flat screened TV's and mirrors mounted on poles that surround the sculpture.

Joo's video helmet is part of an ongoing project, which has been used to record sculptures in the examination of the relationship of science, technology and religion within institutional spaces. In this new work, the static icon is a means of meditation on the uneasy balance between uncertainty and conviction that signals change.

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