Certain bits and certain bobs
I do remember a time when hours were passed in great halls of sculpture, my friend hailed from Wrexham or thereabouts, she now resides in Korea – but for a time we inhabited the same imaginary open plan living space.
There we read everything backwards, each word was taken, read, and then the word before was to follow instead of lead. A strange performed language exuded from a need to translate your speech for others to understand: hand movements and head nods were needed to emphasise certain bits and certain bobs.
To Align or to Derail
Below is a film, which is being developed through modes of translation for an upcoming exhibition in Glasgow (mentioned in last post).
[Computer.m4v “A film developed from original ‘snap shot’ footage documenting travels made and repeated, underlaid with sound from buskers and singers in a tunnel in Belem (a suburb of Lisbon, Portugal). This film aims to translate the idea of communicating with other artists and groups by presenting a layering of image and text to configure or dis-configure – to align or derail.”]
Sound from tunnel and back
