LISI RASKIN

Remote Location Observation Station, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, 2005

Remote Location Observation Station, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, 2005

Mounted at Transmission Gallery in Glasgow following a month-long residency at Cove Park overlooking Loch Long, where Trident nuclear submarines entered and exited the North Atlantic, this project extracted the fruits of imagination that fester in a space of waiting for potential violence. The two-floor installation centered on an observation tower fashioned like a tree fort equipped with non-functional communication devices and a video element that chronicled Raskin's month-long search for any action on the Loch, whatsoever. Adjacent sat a large battleship-gray form, fashioned from sheetrock and thrown plaster, representing the belly of a nuclear submarine extending across multiple levels. On the main floor the submarine's underside faced upward, while in the basement it appeared inverted with its hull facing downward, connected visually through a floor-to-floor black plastic form suggesting structural continuity. Alongside the inverted black plastic submarine hull stood a sheetrock plinth displaying a plasticine scale model of the Trident submarine emerging from water.