Ideas for presenting Inhabitate documentation in Btown and beyond
Kim’s gigapan – just 1 image as projection from hanging fabric – walk around it. Or as a poster.
Most of the images are compositional in themselves, or textural.
Series of textural scrims (projected images are based on textures), long Japanese style, hanging down. Ideas for scrims & projection with following images:
Media Jam, Feb 09, CIA West Perth. Creator: Marnie Orr. Photos: Mia Holton. Bodies:Michelle Outram (top), Justin Morrissey (standing left), and in scrims - Maitland Schnaars, Thomas Kelly, Gina Knight, Meg Norris.
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Screens originally from Stratus999 (Cairns, 1999) created with Leah Grycewicz and Marnie Orr. Painted by Cristina Santolin & Marnie Orr, 2005.If inside, maybe in a hallway, giving space for people to drop/transform.
Start in research room, leading to a room of the photographs – pinnacle of work.
RESEARCH ROOM - not exposing process. But extended comment. Morning training and dialogue on video, sound files – make into overlayed piece, then worked into the space. Reference books attached on strings.
Trace-making on the body. Walking across the charcoal space
Body clean / body dirty. Black and white – using charcoal – contrast. Lead pencil.
Captured several parts of an event. Photographer within the frame
Ways of framing the event – live movement making process.
Extended comment – review about that series of micro events, within a macro event.
Series of relations – perf as a temporal events encompassing a series of diff events. Playing with the time frames.
Post-production treatments of images into black-white.
CONTRAST
DEPTH OF FIELD – FOCUS
Present words in a space exposing the integration of dance/photog mediums. Charcoal as a main process. Devastation / transfer of properties with eg tree w no life but aschen substance. Writing as a big process. Revealing process of choreog engagement w these materials. Rather than just these poetic interface. A way of putting a proposal together. Would fit w PICA.
Micro-processes – body inscription.
I'm in love with the idea of using charcoal, it feels like a completion of the phase as we move though the concepts of Inhabitate.
ReplyDeleteI feel we have already done some amazing exploration of Charcoal as a substance. I felt that the substance was not 'dead' but more alive somehow. Like it has so much more of a story, from 'Living' to what we call 'Dead' but really it is not dead it is merely morphed/ transformed into a new material, which when investigated artistically you can draw to create new images, you can feel the ashen substance already has a story from the oxygen it inhaled and the water it drew from the earth and the various elements that it drew up to the fire that consumed it and transformed it.
There are many many great images collected already which we can see in our collections, I think all of the photographers captured images involving Charcoal.
i would like to see us collect a trailer load of it from somehwere in the district and make it into 20- 30 neat piles about 20 cm high, it could be really beautiful installation. lunar.
I'm very keen to work a sound installation of the voice recordings that Marnie has collected, and have spent some time listening and cataloguing these for use of a piece that can be used to further explore from where we left off. I'd like to use some live mics to capture the sounds of the charcoal mounds being built and collected.
I would relish the opportunity to show this in perth too, CIA/PICA, I'm free most January February for this.
I think that too an interesting piece would be to collect charcaol and use them out in the water - maybe on Kim's pontoons could sit a pile of charcoal.
Regarding the projection onto scrims - let's hang them from the Bridge as a backdrop to the work we do in the water and my propsed Charcaol install.
I'm happy to source this particular scrims - i think i know where i can get some material that is approx 2m wide by 20m, If I could get my hands on two of these, we could hang these from the bridge and project onto them with works that already exist.
i feel that the gigapan images, projected can work but it may have to be a traditional screen for full effect. I like the idea of printing these out as big as we can though, for a more traditional approach where people can get right up close and inspect them. these could hang inside the bridge and be lit from above fro best effect. I'd go as far as saying five would be a good number.
As far as audience particiaption goes, I feel that during the festival perhaps on the Saturday some of us may perhaps like to give an 'inside look' as to how the works were created and ideas formed, sort of a forum Marnie you could offer some explantions of key ideas - sort of a artist talk, we could then have a small demonstartion or game to finish it off- something fun like blindfolds with charcaol or something. I'm thinking limitng this to 45min, as we will all be quite busy on this weekend i'm sure!