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Born 1951 in Dannevirke, New Zealand. Diploma in Design, Diploma in Tertiary Teaching. Coordinator of multi-disciplinary studies at the school of Polytechnics of Hutt Valley, Wellington, New Zealand. “We breathe each other’s air, so I want to know what I’m breathing. As well, I want to know if different states of mind affect what we breathe out, because if that is so, then our state of mind must also affect the environment.”
Since he understood the discovery by the American physician Richard Feynman about an electron's ability to interact with another in space, Grant Corbishley became interested in things that happen in the space in between. 20 years ago, his first exhibition illustrated the journey of electrons and their interactivity. Today, this artist from New Zealand wants to know if we can influence the ambient air with our breath, which can itself change with our state of mind. Grant Corbishley uses new technology such as interactive electronics, video, photos and light. The work will investigate the obvious and subliminal links associated with the deflating balloon and the spatial narrative as a trajectory of thought, time and memory. This balloon will act as linking agent, like the breath, through a projected montage of mediated images.
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The insistence on an unseen but discoverable order in the fissure between all solid forms has long interested people throughout history. The reason is most likely because this area of inquiry traverses all areas of quotidian experience, such as the space between gender, culture, politics, as well as science, literature and art. Visualising and coding processes used in both art and science can assist the need to find new models and methods of representation which can translate and interpret those invisible constructs and connections. The deflating balloon, traversing the interstice, may be viewed as a metaphor for desires, anxieties, freedom, escape, pleasure, sexual potency, progress, banishment while alluding to, ‘the promise of cyberspace, an empire where one can be instantaneously transported across the world or into the realm of fantasy”. | |
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