Installation Feedback

Overall the feedback from my peers was very positive, the points that they enjoyed were how the clips had all blended together and that there was a sense of conversations. They had also enjoyed how the films were all of the same genre and how the installation was very unique.
They also liked several parts, such as how I decided to use the white dividers not only to separate clips, but also as cross hairs halfway through the video, along with how it constantly changes and how they could see the amount of work I had put into the project.

Video Installation

Pre - Production Mind Map

Screening Locations

Tate Britain Notes

    Artist: Harun Farocki

    Title: Workers leaving the factory.

In this video installation there are several 12 televisions  placed side by side, in each television there is a different year in which a video plays of workers leaving factories. As the years progress from left to right the footage begins from being black and white and then eventually becomes coloured. 

To fully engage yourself with the installation you had to sit down and wear headphones that were part of the installation. Watching all 12 televisions took some as you would have watch them one by one until they ended their loop.

Artist: Rebecca Horn

Title: Movable Shoulder Extensions

• The video installation shows a man, carrying two large spikes on his shoulders and he walks through various scenery. 
• The installation itself was played through a television on a loop. 

The video was very lengthy, as it begins with the man walking from a considerable distance, and in the time it leaves the audience trying to figure what the man is carrying, and as the closer he gets, the more clearer it gets as to what he is carrying.

Artist: Rebecca Horn

Title: Black Cockfeathers

• A hand repeatedly ruffles feathers
• Continuous loop
• The installation was played through a television

Video Installation Pre-Production

Screen Type: Fixed (Mac)

Room: 2SW8

Theme: Order and autonomy, everyone one the screens are all doing the same thing just like machines. The audience is then asked to walk around the room and observe if any of the screens are behaving differently even though none are.

Screen Type: Projection

Room: 2SW6

Theme: Order and autonomy. A dummy is placed in front of the table and sat on a chair, and a face will then be projected on the face of the dummy, in the projection the video will be telling the audience i.e the person sat opposite the desk on how to behave and how to act.

Screen Type: Fixed (Floor)

Room:

Theme: Calm and Panic. The video will be projected towards the floor. In that video is two segments, the first part is a person in water, however they appear calm and not in panic, the video will then cut to another video but this time the person is panicking in the water, and this continues.

Screen Type: Fixed (Television/Monitor)

Room: 2SW8

Theme: Calm and Panic. The video will be player on a television. The video itself will be a recording as if it looks like surveillance footage, and within the video an interview is being conducted, throughout it the interviewee is killed exactly where the audience is sat.

Screen Type: Projection

Room:

Theme: Identity. The room will be filled with several dummies all wearing different clothes, however the faces will be projected with tv static to show the lack of identity

Screen Type: Fixed (Television)

Room:

Theme: Order. The video will contain clips from various films related to military e.g. Full Metal Jacket, and within those clips are orders given and the clips shall all be mixed and jumbled.

Films that could be included:

Full Metal Jacket

Good Morning Vietnam

Apocalypse Now

Platoon

Hamburger Hill

Research on Video Installation

Artist: Sam Taylor Wood
Title:  A Little Death

Sam Taylor Woods' 'A Little Death' is a video which runs approximately 4 minutes long and shows a deceased hare and a peach on a table. The video is sped up and over time the hare begins to decompose and is slowly eaten away by maggots and flies until the hare is longer recognisable, meanwhile during this process the peach is left untouched.
The video explores the process of what happens to when a living thing dies, and in the video we see that it is a very slow and steady process, however by speeding the video we are able to appreciate the stages of what happens when something dies.
The hare, along with how it is positioned, is similar to the traditional Vanitas paintings of the 16th/17th century. The Latin noun 'Vanitas -atis' can be roughly translated to the word empty or emptiness, and this can be clearly seen in Wood's work when the hare is slowly eaten away from the inside until there is nothing left and along with its single lighting we can clearly understand with what is being presented to us.

Artist - Christian Marclay
Title - The Clock

The work of Christian Marclay and video installation is a very unique one. The overall video runs for 24 hours. However what makes this piece unique is that the video consists of carefully assembled clips from various movies which feature clocks and watches, the overall video is then synced in real time.
Marclay took 2 years to complete the video and all the clips blend together in a smooth motion, just like time. The video explores the human obsession with time and how this is very important and valuable in our lives. Ironically people are coming to watch a video literally about time and this leads to the audience response, that many people, whilst watching the video, actually lose a sense of time.

Artist - Tony Oursler
Title - Influence Machine

Tony Ousler's Influence Machine takes advantage of landscape and architecture within London. The footage projects various characters and what makes the work stand out is that it is projected on various areas, such as buildings, trees, landscape, smoke etc.
Spending 2 years researching the 'virtual image'. This involved him going through history such as when the first camera was introduced along with the progression and development of media and technology such as film, television and the internet. Whilst exploring different mediums he questioned whether or not the technology available in the present day had been already used, surely enough it was and this was his linking structure to developing and completing the influence machine.
The aim is get people to notice what is being projected. Since this is not the standard projection on a white board it gets peoples' attention immediately.