Posts tonen met het label In the wild. Alle posts tonen
Posts tonen met het label In the wild. Alle posts tonen
zondag 20 januari 2013
Untitled (Steen II)
Als vervolg op mijn eerste filmpje met stenen, heb ik dit 'ritueel' nog vaker herhaald, om het echt als een ritueel te voelen en om het 'moeten' van het doen herhaaldelijk te voelen. Juist de continue herhaling, maakt ook de nutteloosheid van de actie meer duidelijk. Hieronder de drie video's van mijn herhaalde acties.
Kou
Sneeuw
Schemer
donderdag 13 oktober 2011
In the wild - I, II & III
I made three tapes/short films a few weeks ago; when I was doing some interventions in the forest.
I've already presented filmstills from the first film, and an edited version of the second one. But it wasn't exactly what I was looking for, and with the third tape I was searching and wondering what to do with it.
But, after watching the raw versions of all films again yesterday, I've decided that the films are much stronger in their raw forms...
The rawness, and also the 'selfdoing' factor in the films work good;
I'm a 'voyeur' of myself, while I'm playing on my own in the forest, like I used to do als a child, making treehouses. Their is also more shame visible in these raw versions, because now they aren't so esthetic/edited, but they just show everything the way it is. The work becomes something that's on the borders of wat art is or should be. I like them better this way. I see now that the playfullness and the rawness, and the do-it-yourself way of filming works best without editing; in pure forms...
So.. Now I'm thinking about the way I want to show them to an audience. I want to keep it intimite, so I'll probably use small screens, instead of beeming the films on a big wall.
It's also interesting to show them all at the same time, on three different screens. Then it'll become sort of an installation with three small screens..
Then I need to think about how I want to place the screens in a certain space. And think about what other materials/stuff/other work I might want to use in the same room, in a dialogue with these movies...
Hmm, I'm gonna play a bit with different settings this week.
In the wild I
In the wild II
In the wild III
I've already presented filmstills from the first film, and an edited version of the second one. But it wasn't exactly what I was looking for, and with the third tape I was searching and wondering what to do with it.
But, after watching the raw versions of all films again yesterday, I've decided that the films are much stronger in their raw forms...
The rawness, and also the 'selfdoing' factor in the films work good;
I'm a 'voyeur' of myself, while I'm playing on my own in the forest, like I used to do als a child, making treehouses. Their is also more shame visible in these raw versions, because now they aren't so esthetic/edited, but they just show everything the way it is. The work becomes something that's on the borders of wat art is or should be. I like them better this way. I see now that the playfullness and the rawness, and the do-it-yourself way of filming works best without editing; in pure forms...
So.. Now I'm thinking about the way I want to show them to an audience. I want to keep it intimite, so I'll probably use small screens, instead of beeming the films on a big wall.
It's also interesting to show them all at the same time, on three different screens. Then it'll become sort of an installation with three small screens..
Then I need to think about how I want to place the screens in a certain space. And think about what other materials/stuff/other work I might want to use in the same room, in a dialogue with these movies...
Hmm, I'm gonna play a bit with different settings this week.
In the wild I
In the wild II
In the wild III
woensdag 5 oktober 2011
Dances with trees
I was actually trying to find good poses for photographs/filmstills, but as I watched the movie back at home, I thought my movements were like a dance/rythm I was performing with the tree. By reversing it I put more focus on the movements, and the grayscale creates more of a whole in the colourpalet. It's also a form of abstracting and directing it, to create more indirect communication and to make the narrative more visual.
I like the fact that I'm trying to find a way to be with the tree, but that it doesn't really go natural. The unnatural way my hair moves, and the fact that I try to get rid of the dirt on my legs and hands, while at the same time I'm trying to be one with this natural material, all ads up to the irony of the image. You could interpretate the video as my reflection on romantic philosophies of Schiller, Hegel and Nietzsche about humanity and nature; they all try to deal with the fact that we humans were once part of nature, but aren't part of it anymore.
It's this awareness of the division that makes us human, and the fact that we keep trying to be part of it is also human. The fact that we can't reach this point of wholeness anymore and the fact that we know this, but that we keep trying, has some irony in it, or maybe it is melancholy. Anyhow, this human behaviour and these reflections on that behaviour fascinate me. You could say that, with this work, I tried to create a work that's reflecting on it's own content.
vrijdag 23 september 2011
Concepts or fantasies; 'work in progress'
Installatie
'Untitled'
Materiaal: 3 dikke boomstammen, hangend aan een horizontaal in de lucht 'zwevend' betonraster van 2,5m x 2m (bevestigd aan het plafond erboven). Via een kogellager van twee schijven met daartussen kogeltjes, zijn de stammen bevestigd aan het raster, waardoor ze vrij zijn om rond hun as te bewegen.
Naast de stammen, staat een sokkel of tafel met daarop een oude lpspeler. Via een geleider loopt een een ketting rond de lpspeler en rond de stammen; de stammen draaien rond als de lpspeler ook ronddraait. Het specifieke technische verhaal laat ik even achterwege, is niet zo belangrijk.
Performance/Live sculpture
'And the Poet jumped'
Omgeving: bos of theaterzaal. Materiaal: lage bak gemaakt van een lattenraamwerk met een zeil daarover gedrapeerd. Daarin staat een bodempje van ong 5cm water en zit ik ineengedoken; mijn onderbenen en ellebogen raken de grond. Mijn haar ligt voorover gespreid in het water en mijn handen reiken naar een
oude typemachine die, op een verhoging, ook in de bak met water staat. Ik type gedurende een nader te bepalen tijd 'live' gedichten, adhv woorden en gevoelens die in me opkomen als ik daar zo lig en toeschouwers me zien liggen. Mijn gezicht ligt op mijn knieeen en gaat schuil achtermijn haren, waardoor ik blind zal moeten typen..
Fotografie
'I've always wanted to hang myself on a tree'
Een fotobeeld waarin ik naakt en ondersteboven aan bomen en takken ga hangen. Ik zoek dan een speelse, maar ook doordringende, levenloze sfeer. Ik probeer die twee samen te brengen.
dinsdag 20 september 2011
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