"Battery" © Barnabas Strickland A series of 18 household electric fans that form a large scale animation device. Each of the fan's blades has a photographic picture that is part of an animated sequence. The viewer 's motion through the space triggers strobe lights aimed at the fans. Thus causing the spinning motion of the fan blades to be arrested and the photographic sequence to animate.

18 fans: 9 of the fan's sequences are reproduced images from Eadweard Muybridge's "ANIMAL LOCOMOTION". In the late1800s, Muybridge set up a series of cameras to catch the action of a galloping horse in order to find out whether all of the horse's hooves ever left the ground at one time. He made thousands of motion studies over the following 20 years. Muybridge went on to develop a zoopraxiscope, a device that used a series of photographs to create a precursor of the movies. Strickland's images on the remaining fans have been re-photographed from the same Muybridge animations as incorporated on the first 9 sequences, only they have been re-staged with the gender roles reversed.