Matthew Harrison

KUSTOM EXTENSION 4 WAY (2005) height 26cm, width 30cm, length 36cm, cable length 10m. (click for next image…)

KUSTOM EXTENSION 4 WAY (2005) height 26cm, width 30cm, length 36cm, cable length 10m. (click for next image…)

KUSTOM EXTENSION 4 WAY
2005
height 26cm, width 30cm, length 36cm, cable length 10m.

KUSTOM EXTENSION 6 WAY
2005
height 26cm, width 30cm, length 50cm, cable length 10m.

Maple, walnut and cherry timber, nitrous cellulose lacer, laser etched text, Perspex, laser cut stainless steel, printed fabric, electrical components, MOON Equipped Hot Rod components, various fixings, cellulose spray paint.

KUSTOM EXTENSION 4+6 WAY are custom made electrical extension cables. The front panel of on/off switches and indicator lights control the 240v plug sockets mounted on the back of the unit. The 10m long cable of the device can be coiled and secured to the rear of the extension when not in use. The intended use of the work is to provide and distribute mains electricity to any device that requires it within a gallery space. The devices are intended to be peripheral but necessary objects within a gallery space.

Statement
Formed through conceptual rigour and strategy my practice develops through an involved process of merciless art direction. It is then carefully crafted with an attention to detail that can border on the obsessive.

It is vital my ideas are located firmly at the core of the objects and projects I produce. I work hard to avoid attaching or shoehorning surplus material in to them. Works are made as something not made about something.

The work operates at the periphery, like a prop or prototype contained within a larger event. Some are installed precisely on a threshold; others are shifting further from it. They are able to leak from their usual spaces, and also extend out of the normal finite time scale associated with showing work. With this leakage from normal duration and site, works become absorbed in to the ‘real world’, this transition allows its status to be examined.

Many objects produced within my practice find their way into the world as a speculative gift. The gift is a device. Its owner and the subsequent site of the work become implicated in its systems and life.

Contact

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