The end of the semester has been a mix of a few different projects. I'm continuing with my experimentation with photoshop animation (lots of frame by frame work) in addition to filming my final piece titled Dismantling Time. Inspired by the work of Dan Graham (specifically his pice titled Past Future Split Attention), I am exploring notions of past, present, and challenging traditional notions of time. An excerpt from Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art describes Graham's piece:
Words collide, overlap, and intermittently disappear into a melange of utterances, demonstrating how much past, present, and future data bombard us in our experience of any given moment, rendering it almost impossible to isolate a particular experience of a particular person at a particular time.
Instead of having multiple people speaking in my video (like in Graham), I plan to have one person talking (myself!), remembering an event out loud but mixing up the tenses, making the story nearly impossible to follow. It is like a reflection, a sort of stream of consciousness but the camera doesn't focus on my face. Instead the video focuses on my hands and torso while I literally dismantle a clock, getting more and more violent with it as the video progresses.
The clock is a universal and cultural icon of time- one that represents it's linear constraints and restrictions. I seek to challenge these constraints with this video.
