BATHYSPHERE (installation version)
5 x hollow glass spheres, 5 x video projectors, 5 x DVD players on continuous loop
"To enter the space of Bathysphere is to become involved in its mercurial elements and imagined forms. In so doing, the viewer is able to bring their associations to the work, forming new, brief and impermanent narratives. In this way, glass becomes the facilitator of an affective relationship with the viewer, enabling a space for contemplation that lies between the real and reverie. By situating the glass between the facts of its transparency and its uncanny ability to become opaque Nettell is able to probe the line between what the eye sees and what the mind imagines."
**Blanche Craig, Contemporary Glass, 2008. Read full text here »
BATHYSPHERE (short film)
Based on the prose-poem Bathysphere by Andrew McDonnell
Sound: Tom Simmons
Director of Photography: Emma Dalesman
Screening formats: Digibeta PAL, Beta SP, miniDV, DVD
Ratio: 16:9
Running time: 00:05:32
© RCA 2007
PLAY EXCERPT (00:01:40)
