“Focussing in his most recent projects, transmissionspace: David Clegg projects 2006-2012, is an unusual risograph printed publication from this New Plymouth artist. It juxtaposes writing about - and documentation of - two gallery exhibitions in Auckland and Dunedin, with a ‘performed’ outdoor installation (in 4 stages) in Hobart, splicing in photographs of footpaths, malls and parks acquired from earlier trips to Berlin, Paris and Santiago with parallel images from Hobart and Dunedin.

For each show sample examples of Clegg‘s ‘field’ documentation have been selected, photographs and sound recordings (links provided) similar to those found on his previous project websites: the imaginary museum and archivedestruct. Some Chilean images from the latter have been incorporated.

The book though has its own identity, being carefully constructed as a self-contained publication. The stencilling process that is part of the risographic procedure gives the ‘translated’ images a different, grainier, more matte and muted midtone feel than the equivalent photographs on the websites, and for the three projects, the selected sequences of photographs and matching online aural recordings have been shortened, their order altered. Linking connections between the three have become accentuated.

The first in the book is Clegg‘s most recent project, transmissionspace and the index of atmospheres, held at St Paul St (2012). It dwells on the complexity of thought and memory, presenting mental ‘chords’ made up of three kinds of ‘note’ that hover stacked and blended in the artist’s (and later partially the visitor’s imagined) state of reverie. One note is a sequence of black and white photographs taken in a public park adjacent to a major French or German gallery, another is a specified work Clegg has experienced and enjoyed within that art institution which he now remembers, and the third is a suite of sound recordings made with the taking of the photographs. We grasp at a mood, a feeling acquired by the mingling of these recollections and direct image sensations.” John Hurrell – 27 January, 2014, Eye Contact.