Incident No. 253
THE OTHER PERSON
'Yes its for you'
'Come and lie down'
'Make yourself comfortable'
'Just relax'
'Were you dreaming'
Expression of a possible world in a perceptual field - components for field for itself in a new way.
No longer the subject of the field or the object of the field - the other person will become the condition under which not only subject and object are redistributed but also figure and ground
The other person shapes the gravitational field. Creating concentric zones of intimacy and inviting shared vulnerability. This contrasts my video 'CRISIS FULL LENGTH MOVIE' - because this is addressed to myself but really to the wider audience, Cremona addresses the viewer completely and obviously, my address to the viewer is masked in apparent address to myself. But which is actually more intimate, because I am 'addressing myself' mine is very intimate, feels like you've been let in on something private. Cremona's address is very personal but its almost too much, perhaps actually creating distance between herself and the viewer, but i think this is the point, to highlight the camera.
Relational processes mediated by the screen these video performances address the public directly and ask personal and self reflective questions, whereas with my work these questions are asked to myself explicitly on camera.
Cremona says you have to accept invitation within yourself otherwise they are simply monologues, the viewer has to allow themselves in to it. However my whole installation is aimed at excluding people, whilst at the same time being slightly open enough to welcome them in, physical conflict to reflect the mental conflict within oneself.
Cremona attempts an impossible diaglogue with the viwer? is it impossible though, do you need to reply for a dialogue?? i attempt impossible dialogue with myself, obviously they cannot reply to each other but again, does it need a reply...#
Cremona on the screen - screens very familar to us - most of our own communication on screen based snapchat, text, messenger maybe even more than our face to face communication. The screen shapes our identity, always seen through edited version, its our edited personality. video allows the same. What is a real moment in virtual culture?
ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?
Frustration of miscommunication ? different angles and lighting suggest two people
'subjectivity is approached from a psychoanalytical perspective as fragmented and unstable continuously produced in rationality.
BEFORE YOU NOW
- 'Before i start the performance'
'before you start thinking'
'i want to share this moment before you become a viewer and i a performer'
'we are here now, just you and me'
'i know you can feel the difference'
'im a bit scared, of what you might think'
'what do you expect'
'can you see yourself in the screen or in my eyes'
SAID SMIRKING - 'I'm scared you might reject me. But I also trust you. I can feel your presence im not really scared'
'But before I start the performance i can tell you what i think'
The smirk - we are being played by her, we all knows its not true its a ploy. In my piece am i unknowingly playing the audience by 'excluding' them, luring them into the solipsist circle even though its not for them. But really it is for them because its in a gallery setting the whole thing is false.
Cremona lures you in but then snaps out of it with comments like 'this seems so real and natural' is she mocking us or mocking herself? I am quite obviously mocking myself but in a very different way to her, mine much more distressing.
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