Crevice

I think this might be a diary entry.
It’s early on Thursday morning. This week was our first opportunity to start placing various materials ‘together’ - audio, video (two screens), embodied action underneath the viewers. It’s overwhelming.

My initial experience of being in the house (with two curtain walls, and two video walls) was daunting. So much to perceive, to notice. And as a maker, how to go about piecing the options together?

In this sense the process gets unwieldy. To make decisions on the development of a palate … and only THEN to be able to arbitrarily begin trialling the components of this palate.

We have two days left to organise/arrange some kind of working (or not) order for the end of this development. It’s exciting. Working intuitively, but at the same time with immense regard/respect for how a viewer (or viewers) might experience the materials.

“Crevice” is at in intriguing place … meaning possibilities emerging, but uncertainty and questions are the most present.

What is there beyond a fractured/partial body in this work?

Elizabeth talked (today) about the abstraction of the body through the floor that is so very different from the type of abstraction we talk about and experience in ‘regular’ performative situations.

Is there a way of digging into this man’s suchness given the perceptual limitations of the environment?

funny - i’m getting frustrated with ‘crevice’ as working title.
can’t we have more words?

And of habitat.

And of house.

I see you.

I see you (mostly).

A small place to see.

Four windows and a floor.

Rifts.

Division.

Sub-division.

Rima.

Floor above man.

This is the place I live.

It has walls and skin.

it’s late (that’s not a title in waiting).

Cormac - here’s the simple room (flattened p/shop) file. If we want to animate (or delete) any of the lines in this image I could take the moving image/dv you work with (on this image) and then play with it in after effects.
This simple room (able to be zoomed in and out of) was one of my original ideas about having virtual rooms that seemed to elongate the physical space. As if the dancing body was a long way from the people/viewers/guests in the house.
Here it is: floor1_flat.psd
Hang in there.
ske

Two photoshop files, both at 150dpi, and both about 1500 x 1100 pixels.

First one - Set 2 (15.4 Mg)

Second one - Set 3 (11.6 Mg).

Of the house ‘entry’ options (third image), I tend to prefer the final one — in which the entire screen lowers down to close the audience into the space. Thoughts?

In the first image (of the four houses), the last one approximates a possible ‘feel’ for the house front that will be animated at the beginning of the work. ie we’ll make a line drawing of that image. Kris had an idea to ‘roof’ the house with a single light from above (hence the yellow ‘roof’)…. this could definitely work as a form of ‘pre-state’.

ok.
ciao.
ske

some more draft ideas.

found a house in canberra. very happy about that. it’s hot here now… is it hot in melbourne?

btw, anyone tried playing the first sample and the animation together?

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 a second sample [5:52m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

in an effort to feel like i am contributing to this project in a pragmatic way i am hereby uploading this sample audio for all to enjoy. it’s two minutes and is a texture that is based on domestic sounds that have been manipulated. actually, listen first and read later. it is designed to be played at a low level. there is some development of this material that i will attempt to post in the next day or two.

happy new year.

oh, it’s an AAC encoded file with an extension of .m4a
hope there’s no problems listening - let me know if there is!

 a first sample [2:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Doing a bit of playing in fcp. Quite like the opacity of the body … incompleteness of both layers, and a softening of the white clothing into the background.

 Compositing trials 1 [0:29m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download