**Art in Space: The Sequel. Three Jerome Installation Art Commissions.**
Rollin Marquette, Cynthia Morgan, Gerald Smith/Bernhard Huwiler
Intermedia Arts
Minneapolis, USA
15.05- 22.06.1997 *** "Artists Bernhard Huwiler and Gerard Smith, featured in an Intermedia Arts' exhibition which opened Thursday, embark on a winding journey through south Minneapolis, drawing and videotaping a giant labyrinth. Huwiler wears an apparatus that leaves a trail of blue quartz sand as Smith follows with a video camera on a stick, capturing the texture of the sand and surface, as well as the surrounding sounds. Their conceptual multimedia installation, *Drawing Visions of Space* features five differentworks. Their work, along with two other artists' work (Rollin Marquette and Cynthia Morgan) will be featured at Intermedia Arts through June 22. The gallery is located at 2822 Lyndale Avenue South. Bernhard Huwiler leaves a trail of blue quartz sand as he travels down the 2800 block of Aldrich Avenue South. Gerald Smith follows with a video camera, photographing the pattern of the sand against the ground, and collecting the many sounds of the city, from footsteps to buses to birds." **Text:** The Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A., Issue Date: Friday, May 15, 1997, Page 27 *** What happens when an artist dons a backpack that leaks a blue sand trail behind him? It is all captured in Drawing Visions of Space, a multimedia installation of projected film, video, sound and a map of the artists journey through south Minneapolis. This conceptual work is part performance, drawing and observation that is told through moving image and the sound of slow footsteps.

**Text:** unkown *** Conventionally, a line is defined as a path that a point takes freely in its movement through space. In drawing, the point may be at the tip of a pen or a pencil. In the discourses of mathematics and physics, this route between two points can be understood as path independent or path dependent. Path independence is concerned only with the terminus points of such a route. Path dependence takes into account not only the points of terminus, but also information about the journey from point to point. Because performance is central in this work, Huwiler and Smiths "Drawing Visions in Space" is path dependent. For this work the artists, leaving a trail of blue pigmented sand behind them, drew a line that crosses a section of the city through and over streets, yards, and a frozen lake. Smith, holding a long stick with a video camera strung to the end, followed the trail of sand that Huwiler left in his wake.

The artists describe this work as a drawing and an experiment which takes into account such abstract and contingent aspects as duration, distance, location, and their subjective experience. Viewing the videotaped trace of their walk through the urban environment, we become aware of the ways our spaces are marked, regimented, and mutable. We see snow, ice, pavement, a fence, more snow. In describing the work as drawing, the artists also focus on the problem of drawing itself. With this piece, we are made aware of drawing as a cognitive performance that involves both psychological and bodily components. Similar to the way the blue line literally describes, or even indexes, the movements of Huwiler’s body as he treks across the wintry landscape, a drawing marks the movements — both voluntary and involuntary of the hand making the mark.

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**Text:** Diane Mullin