Aerial Mobile
Tim Hawkinson meticulously intertwined television antennas with string and rope to construct the towering sculpture Aerial Mobile (1998). Hawkinson explores vestiges of defunct technology: nineteenth-century ocean exploration vessels and twentieth-century communication devices. The artist calls to mind the 1985 film Brazil, and its absurd futurist vision composed of archaic Fresnel lenses, pneumatic tubes, and Telex machines. In a similarly bizarre vein, Hawkinson’s intricate structure of masts and rigging lacks a hull—an unseaworthy, futile but witty conglomeration suggesting locomotion.
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