Boundary Conditions

Presented on a giant monolithic screen hovering in the courtyard of Hyde Park Barracks, Boundary Conditions is an ambitious new video work from artist Daniel Crooks that seamlessly weaves together an alternate world of disparate spaces and non-linear time.

Taking the historic sites of Museums of History NSW as its departure point, the video employs precision robotic motion control and sophisticated post-production techniques to create a scrolling tapestry of time and space. Juxtaposing the past and the present, the virtual and the real, the video also speaks to the precarious liminality of our contemporary moment. The world is in a state of ambiguity and disorientation and the work, at once fragmented and unstable, beguiling and beautiful, invites viewers to reconsider their internal models of space and time and in turn the site of the Barracks itself.

Boundary Conditions is the third artwork created for Museums of History NSW annual art commission.

This project is proudly supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW Blockbusters Funding initiative.