I collaborated with 3 others this week to create a multiple screen installation. The idea behind the installation was to create a multi-dimensional world, a 'void' and 'in-between' of life and death. I shot the footage and edited it with the help of Aurora and Daisy and Amy built the structure for the screens to sit on. It was a joining of ideas and input. We didn't name the installation as it was an experimental workshop.
The set up using platforms for the screens to gain height from the floor was successful and there was a continuity to the structures. They give an earthy aesthetic. Having the mix of modern and old monitors to play the video was interesting, giving a nostalgic feel to it. The continuity of monochrome footage gave a dark feeling to the installation and synced with the idea of death. The footage playing was glitching like being caught in time. The footage itself was illusionary such as the legs in a puddle and flipped upside down to change the viewers perspective and perception. We originally had the idea of having the sky footage projected onto the floor to give another illusion however due to the floor colour we thought it worked better projected onto the white wall of the project space but still with an unnatural frame and projection of it riding up one side of the wall and giving another form, shape and structure to the installation.
Working with film and sculpture together is something I want to pursue further into my practice looking at my own themes of the senses and haptic visuality. Other ideas came to mind when creating this piece of time and space and making video into a physical sensation by giving it a structure concentrating less on the content and narrative of the film and more on the physicality and materiality of the films content.
Ideas moving forward are to play around with multiple projections creating shapes on the wall and experimenting with time and space within different spaces.
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