The lions
Friday was a big day and I survived!!! Only one week later do I find time to write about this and there is already so much more to speak of! The pictures from my last post are the pictures of my experimentation.
Impressions and a few important comments:
It was not a good idea to show only the recording of the installation, the changing of media, as it was well observed by one person present at the crits, is negative for the presentation of the work in many senses. One because it is hard to understand from the video what was actually done in space. Second because it loses in proportion and therefore, inevitably, loses meaning. Third because the viewers are sepparated from the work in a way that the impressions drawn from it are actually being drawn from an entirely new video work which was not meant to be.
What I could see from the various reaction I had is a need to focus on one aspect of the various ideas I have been looking at. I have to define a theme. This experiment was important for seeing some of what works, some of what I would like to work with differently, but I did throw many things in there at the same time and those need to be refined. The purpose, the idea, and the elements need to be refined. It is words, it is image, it is space. It is what is between the lines and how it expands into air. This is the first choice, then I need to choose what words, what lines and how they come out and conquer, modify and inhabit space.
Last but not least: who am I speaking to? Who do I actually want to speak to and why?
The pictures are stills of the space created through the use of many texts. There was a speaker as well. There was the reading of a text which could not be published in the blog.
Friday was a big day and I survived!!! Only one week later do I find time to write about this and there is already so much more to speak of! The pictures from my last post are the pictures of my experimentation.
Impressions and a few important comments:
It was not a good idea to show only the recording of the installation, the changing of media, as it was well observed by one person present at the crits, is negative for the presentation of the work in many senses. One because it is hard to understand from the video what was actually done in space. Second because it loses in proportion and therefore, inevitably, loses meaning. Third because the viewers are sepparated from the work in a way that the impressions drawn from it are actually being drawn from an entirely new video work which was not meant to be.
What I could see from the various reaction I had is a need to focus on one aspect of the various ideas I have been looking at. I have to define a theme. This experiment was important for seeing some of what works, some of what I would like to work with differently, but I did throw many things in there at the same time and those need to be refined. The purpose, the idea, and the elements need to be refined. It is words, it is image, it is space. It is what is between the lines and how it expands into air. This is the first choice, then I need to choose what words, what lines and how they come out and conquer, modify and inhabit space.
Last but not least: who am I speaking to? Who do I actually want to speak to and why?
The pictures are stills of the space created through the use of many texts. There was a speaker as well. There was the reading of a text which could not be published in the blog.
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