Two multimedia projects where installation incorporates layers of digital ‘narrative’- involving sculptures, performers & found space
Briar Rose Sleeps
Right - still from video. Left - images relating to the two overlaid bits of film.
This work will be a performance film, and a live performance with sculptural objects performed in a concrete urban space (potentially Bold Tendencies, Peckham). Choreographed and directed by myself, made in collaboration with twin urban dancers Marta & Leah Valvderde - Back2Basics,
Learning from Explore could be directly used in translating the film work into a live space with projection mapping and AR hand held screens/glasses.
The work takes the theme of female phsychological transformation through a sleep-like ‘shut down’, from Sleeping Beauty and the pre-dating stories Sun, Moon & Talia (17th Centuary folk tale); and the rape of Inanna, the Sumerian goddess of love, war & fertility.
Social Experiments
Social Experiments is a multimedia project with various outcomes - a sculptural installation with embedded digital layers to the narrative, a performance, and a video work incorporating the two.
Set in the foyer or an abandoned council services building (my temporary studio building), the work is about fraught support.Two women wait, still to be seen after everyone is long gone - one deeply stuck in rumination on the way up her cup should be. They are in-among a ‘chorus’ of huge sculptural, gossipy onlookers.
Learning from Explore could be directly employed in making a dynamic AR audience journey through the work-enabling the digital layers to be equally spatialised as the sculptural ones in the audience’s experience. This could also enable it to be installed in a different venue with less reliance on the setting to do the narrative work.
The video on the right was embedded in the back of a sculpture in the space - the digital layers of the work on a flat plane. The video itself uses overlaying of imagery and movement to show the internal monologue of the character, I’d love to take this approach into physical space.
Trailer/clip for the 20 min video work