ReDocument/
Space Occupy
Space Occupy abstracts videos of movers into near-photographs, transforming the standard hyper-resolved document of moving image into something more ephemeral. The effects applied to these videos generate privacy for the performers and moves the viewer’s focus away from the figure and towards the gesture. The result highlights how movement persists and fades into obscurity.
Redocument is the second iteration of Space Occupy. The 550 videos, auditory prompts, and other elements from Space Occupy were assigned numbers and then using random number generation, chosen/placed/transformed to create a new eight-minute composition.
The next iteration will be algorithmically derived, pairing and cycling through the thousand-plus video database. Catherine does not know how to do this currently. Space Occupy abstracts videos of movers into near-photographs, transforming the standard hyper-resolved document of moving image into something more ephemeral. The effects applied to these videos generate privacy for the performers and moves the viewer’s focus away from the figure and towards the gesture. The result highlights how movement persists and fades into obscurity.
Redocument is the second iteration of Space Occupy. The 550 videos, auditory prompts, and other elements from Space Occupy were assigned numbers and then using a process of random number generation, chosen/placed/transformed to create a new composition of a eight minute work.
The next iteration will be algorithmically derived, pairing and cycling through the thousand-plus video database. Catherine does not know how to do this currently. If you have ideas, please contact her.
ReDocument:
Space Occupy
Production Info
Space Occupy was shown as part of Proteo Media Post/Future Performance Festival, Spring 2021.
ReDocument was in installation Summer 2022, SIP: Sequences, Iterations, Permutations at Hyde Park Art Center
“By the early twentieth century much of what had been the specialized sphere of activity, art, had already entered the phantasmagoric field of entertainment, as part of the commodity world, bringing with it the possibility of changes in modes of identification signaled by a renewed concern with mimesis, distraction, fantasy and day-dreaming.
By the end of the twentieth century, it has been widely argued, this process of de-differentiation has been extended yet further through the aestheticization of everyday life, what Guattari (1992) calls ‘subjectivity’s entry into the machine’, and the transformation of reality into images and vice versa, the production of virtual realities…
And yet the entry of subjectivity into the machine does not simply lead to an attack on the intimate; it is also simultaneously a reconfiguration of the matter of bodies:
It isn’t enough for these machines to simulate the results of vision or of writing fairly well. It’s a matter… of ‘giving body’ to the artificial thought of which they are capable. (Lyotard, 1991)”
- Celia Lury, Prosthetic Culture: photography, memory, and identity.
Space Occupy is an on going project.
You’re invited to film yourself following one of the below videos.
Both videos prompt you to do 55 16-second improvs/choreographies. One of the videos offers specific movement instructions, while the other acts more like a fancy timer so you can move how you like within the framework.
Send your video to me and I’ll be in contact as I process your video.