I put a still of my footage in here, it doesn't look any different to a close up in a movie. As a still image this does nothing! Maybe i should have photoshopped one from the trichophagia clip with the hair in the mouth. I was thinking about putting the video in a more casual setting rather than a gallery situation. I think it could be cool to have it playing on a tiny TV hidden somewhere like in the corner of my desk in this computer room, just hanging out... not trying to be too art and more contented with being a video. Just as a note I like this a crotch-height, i think that would make me feel a bit weird and apprehensive about going near it.I went in to some businesses on Queen street and left letters with them explaining my artwork and asking if it were possible that i play it on the televisions they have in store. Glassons has a block of nine case-less screens on the wall that build one large image, and Bond and Bond have an arrangement similar to the one shown above. So far they haven't got back to me saying yay or neigh neigh but fingers crossed! I would like to have it playing in there with customers around but i doubt this would be allowed. I would sneakily put it in there and play it but that is a little bit activist and would interfere with the feeling of the work.
On a big screen projected in the dark...Again it is hard to judge the effect because this is not a moving image. It looks a lot like a cinema in the dark an i think it would need to have some sort of sound with it to fully engage the viewer. I want to get away from a cinematic presentation because this work simply does not compare to a film, it is video for a reason! It is quite confrontational in this setting, you can't get away from it and I don't want it to be like that, i want to leave space for the viewer to imagine things. I found a good post on video art that provoked a lot of discussion, read it here. I have posted the lips videos on youtube, i think this is quite a good setting for them. I labeled the close up one of the lips sideways "Red Porn", not particularly imaginative but I had just watched some Green Porn. I would like to think that people would search porn and get my video as a result and find that all it is is lips. It is quite sexual in a sense but it isn't close to porn at all.Here is a list of 'related videos' that come up when you watch mine on youtube...
Horny Lesbians having lesbo sex lesbian playtime
Free Big Booty Porn
Masturbating
Girl Fuck Porn
Lego Counterstrike...?
you get the picture.
After thinking about presenting the televisions on top of fabric or something i thought i could wrap the TV's in red sequined fabric. I made this in photoshop using a pic of a tv and a pic of the magical fabric. For me this particular fabric connotes to-be-looked-at-i-cant-help-it-but-its-hideous-ness. I want a red sequin TV. I want three.VIDEO ART
Does it hold anybody's attention? Why do people crowd to watch it at galleries and just walk past paintings? The blog post i mentioned earlier was titled "A Painting is worth a thousand moving images". It takes more time to watch a video, if you don't like a painting you can walk past it, whereas with moving image you want to find out what happens next, humans are very inquisitive. I explored this in an artwork last year that seemed to be just Bars and Tone (that particular version omits the tone for some reason), the tone plays and people would stand there staring at these bars of colour expecting a film to start. The bars and tone just looped continuously. This familiarity with television and film is what drives us to watch it even in a gallery setting. TV is a lazy way of getting information essentially, it's fed to you while you sit there and all you have to do is stare at its carefully calculated stimulating visual images. I have a problem with playing my work on plain televisions because they are just too familiar, they're ugly and they are no longer just screens they are TV.
