A good collaboration with Rie Suto today. We have worked together before at Albert Dock, Liverpool so we know each others work and ways of working which always helps. She was taken with the uneven surface of the walls, how the numerous installations and hangings had left lumps and bumps. The initial aim was to enhance and enlarge them. This proved slightly more difficult (and sticky) than we envisaged so we developed a way of powdering the area with loose pigment. From this point, we became more playful, adding an empty frame, painting out the ‘dots’ within it and joining up the dots outside it with a marker pen. This was done by Rie as a performance piece to the accompaniment of a slow metronome beat. Youtube link http://youtu.be/20xJBXbh36s The metronome was left over from the ongoing Peter Barnard collaboration. Great experimentation and unforeseen development!
Following on from my own work, I have begun another net using video tape of the film, Sixth Sense. Keeping the spools from either end, this allowed conjecture on the way narrative of film is used and how that could be transmitted within the net.
Have received another layering of sound from Peter. Whilst he is not happy with the place of recording due to the unexpected musical accompaniment, I think that the incongruity would be interesting to work with.
All in all, an excellent day’s work that brings in some different ideas to be developed.
