May 2002
Slide dissolve projection work:
162 slides, two projectors, three translucent screens

Andrew Carnie's work using a wide range of media to tackle a variety of complex issues, ranging from travel and its cultural effects, to personal journeys, to neurology, to natural sciences, and to the nature of morality. One of his current areas of interest is the hygiene implications of death and the mythology pertaining to the disposal of the human corpse. For the show Hygiene he has produced a sequential set of one hundred and sixty two slides and a photographic print dealing with the disposal of the body and the different ways in which it is prepared for burial. In the work 'Disperse' he asks "What happens to the body on death. How do we treat it? What elements of hygiene come into the acts of disposal of the corpse? If the death has been caused by disease what may be needed to stop the body being 'contagious'? What happens if the body has been contaminated by radioactivity? What myths have grown over the ages in different cultures as to the processing of the body and its internment to avoid health hazards?"