ACTUARIAL TIME
September 8-29, 2018 at Genesis Gallery, Milwaukee WI
"Actuarial science is the discipline that applies mathematical and statistical methods to assess risk in insurance, finance and other industries and professions." ---Wikipedia
With Actuarial Time, Daniel Luedtke looks at the site of paused video to describe how bodies in time are sites of projection and speculation. Their value, health, quality and duration are simultaneously accidental, unique and determined, accounted for by insurance, medicine and investment capital.
Using projected corporate video, sculpture, prints and drawings, Actuarial Time frames the interruptions between lived time, clock time, leisure-time and lifetime within ad narratives about healthcare and insurance. A central, tiled table-scape with projected video acts as both a time-piece and soundtrack, taking cues from the experience of interrupted content on platforms such as YouTube. Idealistic narrative and music charges the space and other works in the room as the cycles of pause, interruption, content and release continue.
Installation Views
"Insurance Preserves the Value of Time" - Wood, Foamcore, Resin, Plasticine Clay, 2 Channel Video Projection with Sound - 33 minutes, Looped - 6ft X 4ft X 4ft - 2018
An Aetna Insurance Promotional Video and an Amgen Pharmaceutical Advertisement are each projected over one side the surface of the tiled table- sculpture. Resin-coated shapes were cut to outline how specific visual elements from the projected advertisements coincide with pre-determined pauses placed during the advertisements' playback. When an advertisement pauses, 90's techno music plays and a digital clock with the current time of day is displayed. This work mimics the experience of listening to ad-interrupted music on platforms such as YouTube, and superimposes examples of actual time, dance music associated with leisure-time, and narratives of healthy, meaningful lives well spent as described by insurance and pharmaceutical companies. This work appeared at a solo exhibition entitled "Actuarial Time" at Genesis Gallery in Milwaukee WI, 2018.
"Value Added Catalog #1" - Found Furniture Collector's Guide Pages, Ink, Oil Pastel, Foil - Set of 4 Drawings, Framed - 18in X 24in
"Value Added Catalog #2" - Found Furniture Collector's Guide Pages, Ink, Oil Pastel, Foil - Set of 4 Drawings, Framed - 18in X 24in
"Value Added Catalog #3" - Found Furniture Collector's Guide Pages, Ink, Oil Pastel, Foil - Set of 4 Drawings, Framed - 18in X 24in
"Value Added Catalog #4" - Found Furniture Collector's Guide Pages, Ink, Oil Pastel, Foil - Set of 4 Drawings, Framed - 18in X 24in
"Value Added Catalog #5" - Found Furniture Collector's Guide Pages, Ink, Oil Pastel, Foil - Set of 4 Drawings, Framed - 18in X 24in
"Paused Dancers" - Acrylic, Vinyl Bath Mat, Screen Print on Plexiglass - 37in X 19in
"White Women Pointing and Laughing At Your Memories" - Graphite, Marker, Colored Pencil, Found Photographs,
Foamcore, Resin, Ink, Plasticine Clay - 16in X 14in
"White Women Pointing and Laughing At Your Memories" - Detail
"Every Color Out of Focus" - Oil on Canvas, Found Photographs, Plastic, Foamcore, Resin, Ink, Plasticine Clay - 14in X 16in
