*Corpus Callosum
Michael Snow
Canadian, 1929–2023
2002
A 91-minute color video in which Michael Snow continuously sweeps and digitally distorts a panoramic interior so that the act of seeing—the camera’s motion and the viewer’s perception—becomes the work’s subject.
You’d first notice a stretched, fish‑eye panorama of a domestic room that pinches into a black, hourglass‑shaped slit at the center, causing furniture and images to slide, flip, and mirror as the view rotates.
Building on structural film and expanded cinema, Corpus Callosum pushes moving‑image art into continuous panoramic and digital space, probing how motion, symmetry, and mirroring shape visual consciousness and installation practice.
Medium
Video (color, sound)
Dimensions
91 min.
Classification
Department
Credit
Purchase
Accession
3512.2005
Palette
Exhibitions
