Originally I intended my sketches to be incorporated visually into the blog, but everything is interlaced with other notes and personal information making it all incoherent. I decided to pick out the aspects of my notes I though were relevant to our process.
Original ideas included such things as turning the MWC into a gallery of itself, highlighting all of the seams, the floor, the roof, ect. and the viewer would walk around like in a normal gallery setting.
Another idea was make the MWC inaccessible. Putting something, or doing something to the cube that the viewer wants to see, but is prevented from doing so.
The idea for our project then originated from another original idea in which we wanted to create a sort of "mind park" where people could relax, but also view art. Our idea was to put a project on the ceiling, and our job was to facilitate the comfort of the viewers so their minds could comfortable retreat into themselves. It came from the MoMA exhibition last winter, Pipilotti Rist: Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters). People in the gallery were relaxing, taking naps, talking amongst themselves, not unlike a public park during the spring time. Public art also does the same thing, people congregate and use the art for their own leisure and relaxation.
This then led us to ambience. Rist's large looping video clips created an ambience in the room. Looking up at the ceiling kind of alludes to the mind, the upper domain of our existence.
So now we have our key ingredients: video, ambience and environment, and a form of inaccessibility (by using video, the viewer is only limited to what they see)
The final concept was created when I was sitting downstairs in my living room reading, and I really like the ambience of my house, it had a melancholy feel to it, just the type of thing I would want to photograph and document. Sometimes creative ideas come out of us like a baby demanding to be born, it just flows against our own will. Likewise, I can't really explain why or how we came up with our idea, it just kind of happened, but of course our original ideas influenced our though process. So we came up with this vivid plan to have 4 projects simultaneously looping, but only one sound would be played for one of the four projections. This would accomplish our ambience and environment goal.
Unfortunately we only had access to one projector, but probably that was a good miscalculation. I think having 4 videos looping at the same time would be psychedelic and a sensory overload. We ditched the idea of projecting the video onto a ceiling since there was no ceiling for the MWC, but also there would be no basis for displaying a video that way.
After shooting the videos, there needed to be a unifying element. How did all these disconnected clips relate to each other? One idea was to put a familiar object or image in every shot, something for the viewer to follow. One suggestion was a red thread that followed through every room, imagery like in William Kentridge's film (traces of past movements still present on the screen).
So we collected the video, the photography, and the sound. Now to rationlize what we had just done: we imported our site (our house) with the intention of capture the lonely melancholy mood. The house and its tenants were ambiguous, it could have been anyone. So we realized our project was more a commentary on an American household. Melancholy and sad definitely fits that description.
Original ideas included such things as turning the MWC into a gallery of itself, highlighting all of the seams, the floor, the roof, ect. and the viewer would walk around like in a normal gallery setting.
Another idea was make the MWC inaccessible. Putting something, or doing something to the cube that the viewer wants to see, but is prevented from doing so.
The idea for our project then originated from another original idea in which we wanted to create a sort of "mind park" where people could relax, but also view art. Our idea was to put a project on the ceiling, and our job was to facilitate the comfort of the viewers so their minds could comfortable retreat into themselves. It came from the MoMA exhibition last winter, Pipilotti Rist: Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters). People in the gallery were relaxing, taking naps, talking amongst themselves, not unlike a public park during the spring time. Public art also does the same thing, people congregate and use the art for their own leisure and relaxation.
This then led us to ambience. Rist's large looping video clips created an ambience in the room. Looking up at the ceiling kind of alludes to the mind, the upper domain of our existence.
So now we have our key ingredients: video, ambience and environment, and a form of inaccessibility (by using video, the viewer is only limited to what they see)
The final concept was created when I was sitting downstairs in my living room reading, and I really like the ambience of my house, it had a melancholy feel to it, just the type of thing I would want to photograph and document. Sometimes creative ideas come out of us like a baby demanding to be born, it just flows against our own will. Likewise, I can't really explain why or how we came up with our idea, it just kind of happened, but of course our original ideas influenced our though process. So we came up with this vivid plan to have 4 projects simultaneously looping, but only one sound would be played for one of the four projections. This would accomplish our ambience and environment goal.
Unfortunately we only had access to one projector, but probably that was a good miscalculation. I think having 4 videos looping at the same time would be psychedelic and a sensory overload. We ditched the idea of projecting the video onto a ceiling since there was no ceiling for the MWC, but also there would be no basis for displaying a video that way.
After shooting the videos, there needed to be a unifying element. How did all these disconnected clips relate to each other? One idea was to put a familiar object or image in every shot, something for the viewer to follow. One suggestion was a red thread that followed through every room, imagery like in William Kentridge's film (traces of past movements still present on the screen).
So we collected the video, the photography, and the sound. Now to rationlize what we had just done: we imported our site (our house) with the intention of capture the lonely melancholy mood. The house and its tenants were ambiguous, it could have been anyone. So we realized our project was more a commentary on an American household. Melancholy and sad definitely fits that description.
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