Again, Someplace Else... (Still, a Breath, a Gasp, Stutter)
Installation Art | Performance | Photography, 1992–1996. Polaroid photographs, a 1960s Polaroid Land Camera, steel pins, diagrams, space, time, two women, and performance
Performance events in which groupings of Polaroid Photographs are shot and processed to create a shifting series of installations. Exhibited at White Columns, the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program Exhibition, Trial Balloon, New York City and George Eastman Museum, Rochester NY. Installation view: Whitney Museum Independent Study Program Exhibition. Polaroid photograph groupings from each shoot/event are pinned like specimens by four corners, to the wall, in fractured grid configurations. Images are close-ups of the body, female - the artist herself, her mother, and several friends. Investigation of the paradoxes of language and the unconscious. Like other projects by Daly, related to a decades long dialogue with dissident literary surrealism, dada, psychoanalysis, feminism, and the conceptual and performance art of the 1960s and 70s. Configurations may shift through the course of installations and from venue to venue. The grid as structure, inscribes system which does not contain its contents. A diagram of each installation, available on site, designates the current configuration of each grouping, with a prefix or suffix assigned to each group of Polaroids + pins.
