As part of the NUA 2nd Year Intermission where a number of workshops, seminars and activities were available across the courses I felt this one was something I really wanted to get involved in. I wasn't sure what was planned or how we were going to create anything but I was prepared to adapt. As it happened there was no preparation, or indeed equipment required apart from a phone to record any of the images or footage we took. The idea as after looking at a couple of pieces of work. One by Harrison and Wood, really interesting piece but having looked further at their work there is so much to it. So performative, so simple yet so striking, architectural and playful. Take a look here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS50mYKCL_M
Then another piece, which I had seen as part of my Year Zero experience at NUA by by Koki Tanaka called Everything is Everything, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym0LaSAn5n8 Personally I find it too random and chaotic with elements of real beauty but nothing is edited, it is raw and maybe that is what makes it work so well and be so compelling. Here are a couple of screenshots.
I wanted to see what I could create just within the boundaries of my house and garden. We only had 45 minutes, so it was just a case of go and play and see what happens. I wanted to treat it as if it was a task we used to get set by Karl Foster as part of our Year Zero experience, something I return to often when I need to kickstart an idea or direction.
I took a mixture of still images and short films where I played with what I came across just to see what they would do if I looked at them differently. After looking back at the results I decided to divide the filmed images into two categories, one that included all the holes, circles and punctuations, this is something that seems to be following me around and almost becoming a sub-conscious part of my work. The other films I would see how they interacted with each other. The images I decided to keep on here as a record.
The 'Punctuation' film I simply added the elements together with a simple fade between each piece. They all can be seen as interventions, to a certain degree performative, visually intriguing and connected. Please view at full screen with the sound on, the audio is just what was recorded at the time of filming but is part of the piece.
For the second video I wasn't sure how the separate elements would work together, there was no common link or theme so I reviewed them and played around with the order, dismissing a few and cutting the sequence about to see how it would work. As with the first one it was just a simple narrative with minimum editing just to let the individual pieces work apart and together. I wanted to have a bit of fun with it too.
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