#mediated performance

For the MP summative I have decided to go back over and review the presentation of data as mediation. redoing some of the visuals, with a longer time frame of data, This should create a more expansive landscape. Integrating the heartbeat back into the final out come as well should help tie it back together.

Text as mediation, from the formative it was suggested to explore more words and play with them in the same as the ‘censorship’. So i’ll look into what other words can be played with in a similar treatment yet varied to suit the verb/word presented.

This class seems very conceptual where these ideas are open for interpretation by maybe the performer or how each persons different perception (audience).

Creating flux’s: what I vaguely understand from the class is a simple set of instructions that are then ‘performed’. The performance is dependant upon the ‘actor’ and how open instructions are... not particularly my thing, but definitely a learning curve for me.

Flux’s as art works themselves reminds me of the blog (visual poetry) where poetry is taken and given new life through the typography. Which allows the creator “to produce art that can seem as ephemeral as it is poetic”(article via tate) Unusual behaviour demands an audience, so whatever goes against societies norm, becomes a story in itself. The strength of the idea is its simplicity: Alÿs is a kind of story-teller, and his stories have a fabular quality that makes you want to tell other people about them. “If the story is right, if it hits a nerve, it can propagate like a rumour,” he has said. “Stories can pass through a place without the need to settle. They have a life of their own.” (article via tate)

Statement

This project is the experiment and performance of the communication between people. As the communication get longer to reach to its target the message could change through the process. This is what the project will be showing how the message will be send from each person and the massage will change depending on the person experience of interpreting these messages. The most important part to this experiment, is that people will get to experience this type of communication because they will need to use different method that they don’t use in in their daily life.

Experiment of this project will be working with a group of 4 – 6 people. They will need to communicate to each other by using laser lights and leaving message to the next person. The task is that the first person of the group will get to listen to the sound that the project provided. Then that person will need to write or draw a message by using laser light to the person on other side. For the person they receive the message from the first person they will need to write or draw the message on the paper on the wall, this is to leave the message for the next people to absorb before sending the message to the next person on the other side. After the last person receive the massage then they will need to draw or write down on the paper on the wall. Once this experimental finish the first person who create the massage will need to come and check if the massage is right or have change over time.

Performance in this project is that 2 or more people will need to use different tools to communicate to each other thought the fabric. Sound that the project will provide is also part of the project. It is the tool to help creating emotion for the people to give the topic for the communication. The performance will take 1 -2 minutes for 1 set and for this topic will need 2 or more sets for compare the results. The performance is part of the experiment because the project is set to be a stage to watch people preform their method of communication skills. There will be a documentary about people who did an experimental thinking and to show how to do the performance.

When I told the lecture about merging this paper with the other elective paper (sound, image and space) in the beginning of the semester, I've been told one thing I need to be really careful was the outcome in the end might be pretty similar or even the same, how am I going to separate and declare different themes from the outcome. I was a little bit worried about this point because the other elective paper was already in cooperation with the studio paper, which means I was having three papers working across each other and I need to be able to descript which part of the outcome represents what project.

Our original idea was to create a camera obscura environment, either set up a live obscura space or using recorded camera obscura footage project onto the wall. The advantage about the first idea was it will be live, there is going to have so many possibilities, no one knows what will come inside the shot the next second because what’s been projected is exactly what’s happening outside; and the advantage for the second idea is we will be able to have more choices of image location, unlike the first idea where the audience can only experience the view outside that single location, what we are presenting are different views we have taken with the self-made camera obscura box. Also we will have more control over the quality, content and colour of the image.

All three projects are having relationship with the camera obscura theory, the work I have done through the whole semester was to keep working on developing this idea with these project themes but at the same time maintaining clear boundaries between what I want to achieve for each of them. Camera obscura idea was originally the base idea for “sound, image and space”, when I decided to have it work with studio Animation paper, I was thinking to create an animated clip that could interact with the obscura image in some way, so at that time the idea for Mediated Performance was the design of involvement of a performer in the interaction work. The performer would lead the audience through the whole video, and hopefully will have some help for audience to better understand the idea of the video.

We create the video for animation using stop motion, the focal point in that video was to present the working process of an artist while he’s trying to set up a camera obscura space and interact with different objects he’s got around him, it’s all about the action and steps the artist take while creating his work. The video I have created for mediated performance is also using the scene of camera obscura footage, also in the same environment as the animation video. It may be similar stuff when you look at it, but what I want to present in this video is the changing of the visual when the object was placed in front of the footage. Which means for mediated performance I wanted the video to focus on the footage instead of the artist, that’s why I have left around six minutes in the beginning of the video time without the artist just to let the audience to take a better look at the interaction and effects objects created with the obscura footage.