When I went to the Venice Biennale in November 2015, there were many different videos displayed in a variety of different ways, there were multiple screen projections staggered around a room, there were two, three and four screen projections side by side, there were projections accompanied by objects, or sculptures, and the pieces that I really thought worked well were the ones where you sat down and put the headphones on to listen to the video, this makes you really focus on the video. What I also thought was effective were the videos displayed on small screens, because you are drawn in to get up close to the screen. But what I also found was that the large projections with loud sounds in the black rooms were very effective in the sense that they are quite overpowering, and the loud sounds tend to draw people in to have a look at the video. I would like to try both the small screens with and without headphone and the large, loud projections but for different pieces, for example the headphone idea will be used for displaying the video of my brother talking.
The reason I want to try the headphone idea as well is that I have never done it before, I Usually either display a projection or a monitor with the sound quite loud.
This is an example of the use of head phones, This was in the Spanish Pavillion. I like the use of benches and multiple screens, because although everyone else can see it, only the person with the headphones on can hear and understand i properly.
Above are a few examples from various artists of different multiple screen projections or screens. I really like the one that you could walk around and in-between, was visually very exciting, when you walked to the middle you were surrounded which I liked.
These two pieces above are both pieces which involve an object and a video which are somewhat related to each other. The one with the tv monitor on the floor and the piece of material next to it was the one which interested me the most. The material was the outcome, and the video showed the process in which the marks were made on the material. This is something that I have similarly done in the past when i created prints from punching card, and skipping in card, then displaying a video of me punching and skipping next to the the prints. The only difference is that I didn’t actually video the process of me creating the prints and display it, which i wished i had done. This is definitely something I aim to do in the future.
Other Works which I found interesting, but aren’t video related…
I loved this piece of work^ because there were different words written separately all over the wall, and I found myself walking around this one for ages reading the different words. What also made this interesting is that the words had been printed on the wall with giant wooden stamps that were displayed on stands in front of the prints, it was interesting to look at the words on the stamps because they were obviously written backwards, and they were so big and positioned in different ways so was good to walk around them.
^This room was full of different old clocks on the surrounding walls, then in the middle of the room were cabinets filled with different old bits, but the bit that was the most interesting for me was that right in the centre inside the cabinets was a spaces that you could walk round in with these dark green ghost-like hanging pieces made from old army clothes, they seemed to resemble the human form but were ragged and just hung there by fishing wire so you could wall around and in-between them, the room had this dark dull feeling to it, with black walls and low lighting.
^ I liked this piece purely because of its beauty. It was a large room full of old keys that were hung from the ceiling with red string at different lengths and scattered around and on old boats. I really love old keys and have a few at home that i have collected, they are all really different and i find them so interesting so to walk into a room surrounded by them was just fascinating, especially when you looked up and there was just all this red string hanging down with keys on the end.
^These bricks were made with ‘Never Work’ on them in chinese symbols. There were loads of them all in a room stacked up, and you could pay 10 euros for one to take home. I loved the idea of the bricks ending up travelling all over the world with different people, all ending up in different situations. (I did buy one, but it got confiscated by security at the airport, because i put it in my hand luggage and they said they classed it as a weapon! so i watched as they threw it in a bin. I was very gutted)
