Shirley Tse, "Decommissioned Inter-Mission," 2022. Image courtesy of The Magic Hour.
September 28, 2022
By Jennie E. Park
Two works by Shirley Tse, originally exhibited indoors, are remixed under the spell of wild elements in The Magic Hour’s current iteration ‘time going backward and forward.‘
Founded in 2018 in Twentynine Palms, California by Alice Wang and Ben Tong, The Magic Hour has hosted six prior iterations (or experimental installations), each for ten weeks and anchored by a set of reconfigurable steel bars (co- produced by Dyson & Womack). Through their sojourn in this seemingly borderless desert tract named after a sliver of time, Tse’s Decommissioned Inter-Mission (2022) and Instant Archeology (2006) conjure space-time wormholes that decontextualize and recontextualize the pieces’ projections of our pasts-to-be.
