"GONE, GONE BEYOND" REINVENTS AND SUPERCHARGES THE MOVIE-VIEWING EXPERIENCE

by Edward M. Gómez

Since the early 1990s, presenting her ambitious audiovisual collage works under the moniker “People Like Us,” the British artist Vicki Bennett has created some of the most engrossing sound-and-image productions to be found anywhere on the international contemporary-art scene.

Now, with Gone, Gone, Beyond, a one-hour-and-fifteen minute, immersive installation work, Bennett and collaborator Peter Knight have concocted a sensory tour de force of cinema in the round — or, perhaps more precisely, in the square, for the new film is shown in a specially designed, rectangular viewing room equipped with large, wide screens covering all four of its walls.