Video still #1

Still image from video of armless man on see-saw.

Video still #2

Detail of small LCD monitor with video of hand attempting to balance an egg. Image on screen is approximately life size.

Installation view #1

The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, 2003. View of chairs and mini LCD screen.

Installation view #2

The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, 2003. View of life-sized video projection.

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Balance uses the physical struggle of balancing as a metaphor for making sense of the world around us. Seemingly insignificant actions can sometimes have a disproportionately large effect. This installation is an extension of a similarly-titled performance piece from 1998.

The installation has two video images: a small LCD monitor displays shows a hand attempting to balance an egg on end, while a second, projected video shows an armless man struggling to balance on a wooden see-saw. The audio from the egg video has been routed through high-powered amplifiers to the bottoms of wooden chairs, which shake with the low-frequency rumbling each time the egg falls over.

Art Review: "Sweet Dreams" and "Opposing the Opposition"
October 23, 2003
Ann Klefstad

“Balance,” Eric Winesett’s pair of video installations with sound, was probably the most stirring piece in the “Sweet Dreams” collection: simple, concerned with a single fact and its resonances. A small TV screen showed an image of an egg, which a hand is constantly trying to coax into balance on its end. As, each time, the egg tips and rolls, a thunderous sound, like lead bowling balls rolling under the floor, marks the egg’s movement. The vibrations lead up into the four chairs that one sits in to view the egg. Facing this, another larger screen shows a man with asymmetrically truncated arms trying to balance on a teeterboard. He’s impassive, focused on the problem of maintaining an impossible balance in a world of motion.

http://www.mnartists.org/article.do?rid=28436

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