chance

still working-still thinking

Basically I think it would be a study in gestures and body language...

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well well
I thought I had my game plan done but I did not.
The idea I had is connected with Gestures.

I am thinking of setting up people around a table and filming their gestures. Once again this idea is really simple so I feel...minimalistic and lame...well
I don`t know

Research Proposal

For this quarter I am thinking on working with the concepts of video performance and media dance. These are two concepts that I came across while reading a little catalog for a Film Festival happening in Reykjavik in 2008 and Video Art by Michael Rush.
With video performance I am trying to define does works that use the video media to perform. The camera itself becomes somewhat the body that is performing. It is explained really well by Irena Kalodera while she is explaining her video Stick, “This is a video performance for the Camera. The body ‘acts out’ through the object its presence is physically concrete without ever being directly present inside the frame” (http://www.700.is/700.is_2007/htmlsite/700.is_2007site/Kalodera.html). This words explain well what I have been working on in the last couple videos. How can the camera perform? How can movement from the camera be translated to the body of the viewer?
The second concept, that of media dance, is more connected to my personal research of integrating dance in the media world. Charles Atlas says : “Neither pure dance nor pure video or film, media dance is perhaps best understood for what it isn’t: it is not documentation of a dance nor a film about dance. It is dance conceived for the filmed image, dependent as much on camera work and editing as it is on choreography” (22).
In conclusion my idea is to show a dance through the dancer’s prospective. Making the audience believe that they are dancing. I would be doing that by mounting two cameras on the sides of a dancers forehead. In a first stage, the cameras are connected to little monitors, so that while the dancer is moving we can choreograph specific movement that better shows on a screen. In this process we begun to create a specific sequence, which ones created will be repeatable always the same. Then we will perform it and record it.
I still have some questions for myself:
• Where will it be perform?
• Should it be more than one dancer? Maybe a partnering piece, in which both dancers have the cameras on the at alternative moments, so that we could move from ones’ view to the other.
• What should they be wearing? Should I think of it as actual dance piece, with a meaning and idea beside that of a dance seen by the dancer’s prospective?
• How could I most efficiently mount cameras on the dancers’ heads? Should I use the HD2 or can I get my hands on some smaller cameras?