Hive Oracle - April 2015

Hive Oracle - watch movie at VimeoCreating this performative video was a real departure from the mediums I've worked in so far. I have a list of words and ideas that I compiled after the April Seminar that I've been exploring in my research.- The idea of a shadow world, strangeness in time and space, otherworldly, hypnotic. I want to continue to explore these ideas in my work.- I need to examine duration in my work. What would realtime do? Authenticity versus affect.- Tying into that is the use of cinematic orthodoxies and the tropes of theatre. Artifice. I'm curious as to how I can use these in a totally unselfconscious way to produce certain affect. It's a bit of a fine line between cliched/naff and something that works the way i want it to, it can easily be pushed too far and fall over. The same with earnestness versus parody, it's tricky but I'm interested in exploring it.- Trace of Performance. This is important and has been coming up again and again with my work. I'm currently exploring how this can be used and will write a post about what I have discovered.- Performing to camera. Is this a performance or is it a video work? What makes it one or the other? What happens if the performance is not to camera? There was also quite a bit of feedback from viewers around how they felt the direct eye-contact was challenging which I felt was a positive response to the work.- I also need to examine the role of scent and sound in the work to create a full enveloping experience. I've used scent for some time now and would like to keep that as part of my practice.