Arrowcatcher (2020)

At venues such as Southern Exposure in San Francisco and Some Serious Business in Venice California Wiehl performed Arrowcatcher creating a sculpture through shooting arrows into a rectangular structure that would visibly suspend their movement in time He explored variations of form and multilayer parallel panes of material cloth Plexiglas and glass with mirror base Filmed with a highspeed military camera the slowmotion film Arrowcatcher 1978 was screened prior to his live performance at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The sculpture remained on view as part of Exposures one of the group exhibitions presented within the major overview The Floating Museum Global Space Invasion II 1978 The Floating Museum 197578 founded and directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson worked with Wiehl on his sitespecific project A Month Becomes An Hour at The Foothills Community Planetarium in Los Altos California