still : ripley torches lab (from i.thou 2012)
I’m at a 40 minute rough cut of the work I started in 2009. At some point I calculated it takes roughly 20 hours to make a single minute of footage. Now that I’m seriously working the audio, the time involved has gone up yet again.
I’ve included snippets of Rihanna singing with Eminem, both the video footage and cutting up her singing. There’s something really interesting happening there – using a fiction of domestic violence (the video itself a little movie featuring Megan Fox) and the image of a singer known for having been assaulted in her relationship. Rihanna sings “love the way you lie” as part of that fiction of domestic violence; woven into this mess, its also about the illusions fed to us by film, by our senses.
Every audible reference has play in the visual stories threaded through the work. Rihanna sings “you watch me burn”; the viewer watches Joan of Arc burn in i.thou; at the end, a resurrected Ripley burns her former nursery/the lab, including a mutilated sister-self who asks for death.
Oh, illusion. You’ll just have to watch the finished thing once I get it on screen.
Video visible in two alternate views, depending on the available space. As three channel installation, with three 20 mn films running parallel, in loops; or as single channel installation, one 60 mn video, looped, dependent on the viewer’s stamina and memory to comprehend the work.
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a poetic expression of recursive thought and its relationship to memory.
The architecture of memory altered by perspective, by the passage of time. We reshape information to suit a point of view. We forget, we reconstruct.
No information is static; we have relationship with story, a dance that changes it and ourselves. Unattended information decays in the world. Information we pay attention to flourishes and changes as it becomes lively with that attention.
I processed flaws into the footage and audio, purposefully creating accelerated decay in the data. Structural information is removed (or ‘forgotten from’) from the data. Information collapses in a powerful metaphoric way.
sketchbook : miniature daschund as cerberus (2006)
one minute of the king
one minute of the king altered (ffmpeg + avidemux video codec editing tools)
the messenger of death (2009) my entry for clytemnestra reMix, a martha graham dance company project that allowed footage of ms. graham’s choreography for single characters from her archetypal piece clytemnestra to be manipulated by video artists.
