Metabolic Studio’s HUGE Liminal Camera

 

The Liminal Camera, simply put, is the largest portable camera in America, currently on tour on the East Coast. Built from a 20 foot shipping container in Los Angeles, the Liminal Camera is an enormous pinhole camera with a fully functional B/W darkroom, complete with AC, ventilation, water pumps, and drying equipment, all solar powered. It is mounted on a flatbed truck and being positioned in various sites along the east coast that represent spatial distress and voids, tears in our collective cultural fabric. The prints produced are 4x12 feet or 8x12 feet in size (variable aspect ratio).

 

Our first stop on this tour was New York City, during the 10th anniversary of 9/11, to visualize that moment of American History. After this, it travelled up the Hudson on a barge, then, back on a truck, to Rochester where it photographed the relics of the dimming optics industry, and to trace photographic silver from its mother lode in the Mojave desert to the mostly derelict processing plants along the Genesee River.

 

We will arrive in DC for Veterans Day, to pay tribute. The prints from the 3-month tour will be shown in DC, at the Hirshhorn along with video and audio material collected by installed, autonomous surveillance equipment and maps rendered from GPS waypoint data.