I have created two video/audio pieces that would be installed in a storefront or isolated room. The images will be displayed in the storefront window by video projection or in an isolated room/space in a larger exhibition and would be on a loop. While, speakers strategically placed outside, or within the room depending on location, will be playing an audio loop as well, creating a micro-environment of what life through my eyes was like at Zuccotti Park, a functioning village in the heart of New York City, created by people that could no longer stand idly by as our society yearns for change.
The first piece is called Sights&Sounds, 30min video piece, which is the combination of still images from a day at Zuccotti Park as well as audio from another day. My hope with this piece is to put the observer in the heart of Occupy Wall Street, the village and the movement created in the middle of a bustling city, where everyone was fed, sheltered, and nurtured, and where the possibility for change was palpable and ideas for that change were welcomed. Images will be inter dispersed between black screen or “empty spaces” forcing the viewer into a closed eye state, which encourages the observer to listen and feel what an amazing environment was forged at Zuccotti Park, creating a moment of imagination and interaction for the viewers to place themselves in the OWS movement.
The second piece, Take Back, 16min video piece, during the day after the NYPD had raided the park, while everyone awaited the court’s decision and then eventually the inevitable re-taking of the park. And although Zuccotti Park never got back to its previous incarnation of what I like to call “Village of the People”, it was a incredibly symbolic moment, that no matter what the government organizations would do, they could not stop the movement of enlightenment and change that had begun. This piece too has both audio and visual components that would be set up in a loop just as the previous piece. However, Take Back has an expanded format- in addition to the black screen there are quotes by Thomas Jefferson interspersed throughout that address the need for public dissent- forcing and focusing the listener/viewer into both a closed eye state as well as a reflective state on our society and its founding ideals and principles.
Both pieces, Sight&Sound and Take Back, create a space that transports the viewer back to a moment of origination of Occupy Wall Street, and shows how ideals and change can reverberate through time, people, and space.
Sounds like a Yes, but would like to see the work first. Artist needs to provide equipment.
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ReplyDeleteI can see this piece working in the Brik Gallery's two rooms in-between the large and small galleries. These windowless spaces have the isolation necessary to allow a viewer to sit and contemplate a 16 minute and 30 minute video. But this is Geno's space to curate as he sees fit. Would like to preview the work.
ReplyDeleteThis seems viable and agree the space b/w rooms at Brik would prove good situation. Wondering if other AV offerings could happen there - a loop of a number of videos - though this may introduce possibility of obscuring unique offerings.
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