2006 THREADS video installation DUBLIN Kilmainham Gaol Museum - WAY OUT solo exhibition
starting idea for Dublin Fringe Festival 03
DUBLIN, 13 September 2003
Threads
Artists & prison scheme
Troubled childhood and personality gave me strange dreams.
One of these dreams was a vision of female bodies displayed pressed into two dimensional large glass frames as an art exhibition.
In time I realized those and such morbid dreams would be the image my difficult birth, as also the image of captivity and grief of my mother sudden loss.
Growing up, I stayed alive with a sense of curiosity about the truth, aiming to always allow to live, the sometimes hard to accept, honest emotions.
I started re-visualizing this old dream not long ago.
Dreams originated my whole art production, with only the addition of literary quotations as translations of my inner feelings, in som cases, and so I set about developing these ideas.
DUBLIN, 13 September 2003
Threads
Artists & prison scheme
Troubled childhood and personality gave me strange dreams.
One of these dreams was a vision of female bodies displayed pressed into two dimensional large glass frames as an art exhibition.
In time I realized those and such morbid dreams would be the image my difficult birth, as also the image of captivity and grief of my mother sudden loss.
Growing up, I stayed alive with a sense of curiosity about the truth, aiming to always allow to live, the sometimes hard to accept, honest emotions.
I started re-visualizing this old dream not long ago.
Dreams originated my whole art production, with only the addition of literary quotations as translations of my inner feelings, in som cases, and so I set about developing these ideas.
VIDEO CLIPS
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ARELIA AND HER WORK IN MOUNTJOY PRISON
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The Project
The actual plan is to prepare a “squashing window”, a big double glass frame as large as a double door from where to film female bodies located inside for some minutes in single exposures.
Using this glass frame, I would ask women to pose individually in this incubator.
Separately I will ask each to female inmates to tell for me their dearest story (possibly not related at all to the captivity, but as they prefer), to be used on a looped sound track.
The final outlet would be a set of semi-still video-projections running on a number of canvases on different walls and/or rooms each one having an individual sound track edited for the story told by the subject.
I will title these video/audio installations “Threads” each representing visual re-births of the adult women in their return to an original, private, possibly uncontaminated - and free? - starting point.
A lost private space.
Technical requirements to create the installation
1) Squashing machine
made of n.1 flat glass and a n 1 shaped glass,
n1 framing structure and
a railways system to move and press the glass in shape size 2x1,50
2) video camera with video equipment
3) tape recorder with professional microphone
4) video-direction + video operator + editing
5) sound-direction + operator + editing
I plan to record a set of 12 bodies/stories, one for each month.
With the aim to have the whole 12 months exhibited together. (depending on venues and budgets)
THE INSTALLATION
(depending on budget)
1st Proposal
Squared room ca 5x5x4
Each wall with 1 framed canvas 3x3 (or wall) + 1 projector + 2 speakers (x4)
Three stories alternate on each canvas in time, looped and general sound melts
2nd Proposal
A number of single rooms
one for each canvas + 1 projector + 2 speakers
depending venue availability
Installation:
n.4/12 canvases size 3x3
n.4/12 projector + 8/24 speakers
1 set technician
1 video/sound technician
venue technical supervision - depending on venue
E.J. McBett Dublin, 13 September 2003