Leaving Earth, Mary Lucier’s immersive video installation at Cristin Tierney, tests the limits of attention with its Whitmanesque expanse. Nine screens, set on individual poles around the room, like a grove of monitors, feature unsynchronized video loops, some with sounds.
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Balancing Act challenges viewers’ levels of participation, visual perception, and manual precision—a considerable number of actions needing to take place in a gallery setting, let alone anywhere outside of an arcade hall. While the artists’ collection of mechanically sharp paintings eviscerates any indication of their painterly hands, their huge interactive game contrastingly engages its participants to become their own blatant sculptor.