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Seeing not Looking

2019 · Single-channel video, 7 min 28 sec

Excerpt. Full work 7 min 28 sec.

Seeing not Looking takes its title from a story by Oliver Sacks about two people who had surgery to restore their sight, yet only one of them could see. Sacks suggested that to see, you need to look.

The work brings a sensor-laden autonomous drone camera together with two performers in a studio. All three bodies negotiate how they see one another. Can the drone camera look, and how does it see? Their improvised exchange unfolds over seven minutes.

Year
2019
Medium
Single-channel video, 7 min 28 sec
Performers
Jake McLarnon, Charles Ball
Technical
Oxygen Media
Shown
MARS Gallery, Windsor, Melbourne, 2019

Writing

‘A Ghost in the Machine’

Anne Scott Wilson, in Human Rights in the Age of Drones (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026). A chapter on this work.

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