Modern Fuel’s New Media Workspace, in collaboration with both Feb Fest and artignite, is proud to present a free outdoor screening of Aubrey Reeve’s film/video installation, Glide, in Market Square. Glide is a looping side-by-side dual-screen installation that meditates on ice-skating as a personal experience of alchemy. It is a perfect match for Feb Fest activities and the skating rink at Market Square.

Glide contrasts the scientific with the poetic, asking the viewer to grapple with logical explanations of a physical experience or to surrender to its unknowable mystery. The right-hand projection is an animated loop of a lone ice skater. Over 300 drawings with India ink on watercolour paper were created to produce the animation. The fluid strokes of the skater’s motion echoes the watery brush strokes and the pools of dark glistening ink. The left-hand projection is a loop of text, which begins by describing the dispute among modern scientists over how to explain the physics of skating. The text suggests that the physical experience of going around and around the oval ice enables the skater to experience time as an infinite cycle.