3 posts tagged “video projection”
On Saturday, Dec 15 I staged a work called pattern recognition as part of a benefit for Common Ground, a women's shelter in New Orleans. A 20-minute spoken word performance with backing video and sound, the work presents a constellation of verbal & visual symbols spread out over time.
The video has alot of layers and I've struggled with size & compression issues for the web. Higher image quality will be coming soon.
Audio was produced by DJ earWIG in Texas. He uses found sound techniques, and applied that working method to audio recording of my violin performance.
I used found video and other animated found images to create the video.
Working with found material, to me, is like analyzing and manipulating sensory information. All sensory information is found or discovered. Art is the purposeful arrangement of any kind of material information for the viewer to sense.
Each viewer will read into that information what they will, each viewer working from their own perspective and projecting their own maps on the information they are receiving.
The found video I used comes to me from archive.org. This library of video functions as a memory bank for the West, as glitchy and subjective (and filled with sales pitches) as your average human's memory. So keep in mind that on some level as I manipulate this found video I am manipulating and re-presenting our communal memories.
This is also the website where I found DJ earWIG in the first place.
The spoken word element, which is hidden here, was a selection of my poetry. I wait until the last minute, almost, to select what I'm going to read when I do these performances. I can't perceive the finished work as it happens. Only the audience does. From the stage, I get to watch them make connections between symbols and images in the spoken word and the video, which I can't see while I read.
Feedback involves things like, "Did you plan that? How did you get that to synch up with the video like that?" etc. I am a highly intuitive person, and my performances with backing film happen with sychronicity as part of my tools. One audience member at this show referred to that as the 'man behind the curtain effect'.
