Synchronic (in)visibility
2017
Performance, 25 min
Single channel live broadcast with multi-camera VJ-ing
Performance, 25 min
Single channel live broadcast with multi-camera VJ-ing
Synchronic (in)visibility (2017) is a work that operates as a disembodied experience of performance, since the performer is not physically present in the gallery space before the audience. The audience is instead viewing the performance on a large screen projection, while the performer is at an undisclosed location performing alone.
The performance is live-feed broadcast on the internet in realtime, so in addition to the gallery goers, anyone, anywhere could access the performance. In the undisclosed space (the performance broadcast room), there are 3 surveillance cameras at different angles set up, while the broadcast source runs an automated VJ programme that layers the camera angles at intervals, enhancing the linear abstraction of the high-visibility lines.
The performer is wearing a black suit lined with high-visibility reflective strips that are removed one-by-one over the duration of the performance and composed onto the wall.
Credits:
Custom VJ programme written by Peter Mackenzie
Sound design by James Philip Brown
Performed by Monica Tolia
Exhibitions/events:
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11.05.2017: First iteration of project. Live performance at Enclave Lab for 'We're All Involved In This Mess' (London). Live-stream broadcast in Buster Mantis and Job Centre, Deptford.
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15.06.2017: Final iteration of project. Disembodied performance. Live broadcast from Deptford Studios on Ustream. Screened live in the 'No Future' exhibition at Out of the Brew Gallery as apart of the 'Against the Slow Cancellation of the Future' Conference from the Centre for Cultural Studies (CCS) at Goldsmiths, University of London |