Graduate Student, School of Creative Arts
Thesis Title: The Role of Disorientation in Video Installation: A Practical and Theoretical Investigation
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Marty St James
Pat Simpson |
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My research investigates the use of movement in a video installation.
Movement in a video installation can be analysed at several levels: camera movement, movement of the performer on screen, and movement of the viewer as they explore (walk through) the installation. The aim of my research is to gain an understanding of how movement can be harnessed and structured for precise artistic ends, including the possibility of exploiting motion for eliciting various kinds of emotional responses.
In particular I ask the question ‘Can the bodily movement generated in a video installation generate movement in the viewer’s mind?’ This research focuses specifically on structuring movement with a view to affecting the audience in two ways: disorientation and the creation of desire. These were chosen based on my subjective motivation from my upbringing in suburbia. This personal experience has led to memories of conformity, consumerism, lack of desire and apathy.
The purpose of a disorientation strategy is to jolt the audience out of hardened thought patterns: as ordinary perception is subverted, familiar structures break down and the audience is forced to reorganise their thought processes along alternative, (hopefully) more creative, lines.
Desire, on the other hand, is itself on many levels and in many senses a ‘moving’ energy, and can therefore be induced sympathetically by the movement transmitted through the video installation. Desire naturally tends towards action in the search for fulfilment. It is essentially dynamic, as opposed to static; hence its inherent relationship with movement.
Together, disorientation and desire as structured elements in my work, are intended to provide an active audience experience.
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