Wavelenght
Michael Baers
'Wavelenght' was commissioned by floating ip in 2005 and takes the form of a newspaper in comic book form, produced in response to the 1966 Michael Snow film 'Wavelength' (in which a camera slowly zooms out on a scene over a 45 minute period). Baers' work addresses the film itself as a consideration of metaphysical space and the qualities of film, as well as his own agency in revisiting it from an art-historical perspective and the possibility of visually representing his own position in time. The drawings themselves are structured around a zoom out from a still of the film on the wall of the artist's studio, and in the course of the paper they cover illustrations of the artist handwriting, typing on a laptop and passing time bouncing a ball – each with commentary (or deliberate lack of it) that addresses the tension between writing and pictorial representation of the same.