TOUCHING SPACE

Ellis Hutch

24th May - 5th July 2008 | CCAS Gorman

The text and videos that form the work Touching space are part of a series of works investigating gesture and the construction of meaning.The videos combine unconscious or habitual hand gestures with fingerspelling used in Australian Sign Language (AUSLAN). The moving hands have been abstracted to a point where they begin to evoke other imagery. Hutch has been interested in the way people’s brains can get caught in a kind of feedback loop, the experience of having a word on the tip of your tongue but not being able to access it. This has inspired the construction of images that move between being recognisable and being somehow abstract. The spelling hands create meaning if you have learnt to interpret the signs.

Image: Ellis Hutch, e, 2008, digital image