'We are not used to thinking like this, all at once, or nonhierarchically, but the intermedialist does it naturally. Context rather than category. Flow rather than work of art.'
- Allan Kaprow
What if a sight-seeing tour was equally about sensation-feeling, flavour-tasting, scent-smelling and sound-listening?
What if a city tour was not primarily designed for tourists, but equally, for the city’s inhabitants?
“It seemed to be very subversive of that expectation [of it being an audio guide] because it certainly didn't help clarify, it just kind of added to, or enhanced the fragmentary nature of the place”
There are many things that draw me to this work. The intimacy of Cardiff’s voice as she guides the viewer through the station, like she’s really there with you. The confusion between present and past (on the screen the people are different, the weather’s different, day turns to night). The fantastical quality of the musicians and ballerina, and chance element of the dog interrupting the performance. Drawing on stories from the past, during the second world war, and reflecting on how people are recounting these stories in the present. But most of all the way she is able to seamlessly drift between public and private accounts of experiences and memories.
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Alter Bahnhof Video Walk
Janet Cardiff
I can’t tell you how much I love this. All of her work, really. This gets rill good at 1:30.
There were some tears but now I've got the audio recorded and mixed for my final project of MFA 1 Thank you so much for your time & patience with my novice sound tech skills @hejfrances you're a star! (at Akademin Valand)
I made a map of my ‘individual practice’ development since starting at Valand Academy. I found this a useful reflective exercise as in my projects it’s not easy to explain how one thing leads to another, how ideas form and adapt, are dropped and picked back up on at a later stage. The general pattern seems to be that ideas branch out from one another, but they can also collide. The key points in my work’s development are these ‘branching off’ points - when I realise that the work contains two autonomous components that shouldn’t be forced into being one. This happened at several points last term, and after reflecting on my December exam feedback it’s happened again.
After doing much research into 4 sites of interest relating to Gothenburg’s physical ‘underground’, I’ve decided to move ahead with that project which will take the form of a web-based mobile guide with both an audio narrative and augmented reality component. I’ve come to realise that the concrete and clay body part casts are just not based on the same ideas, which is why I’ve had such a hard time articulating the reasoning behind siting them in those 4 locations. So from this term onwards the clay and concrete material experiments will take a back seat, as I’m now focusing on developing the audio tour, map and AR visuals for the Gothenburg Underground Guide (working title).
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