No to £650 consists of four vignettes that focuses on different types of invisibility.
1st vignette was created in 2012 inspired by the Ralph Ellison book ‘invisible man’
* 2nd vignette created after days attending the Maggie Hambling talk
The 3rd vignette was created after being asked to take down the video
This video captures the point of exploring the realms of censorship by video capturing the you tube ‘video does not exist anymore’ screen. Something that was once there and now has vanished creates mystery curiosity and intrigue with its traces still contains clues via the description boxes and possible comments of people who had seen the video. The silent fuzz of the screen captured the state of flux of my surroundings. My past ideas had been sent into the void by my experience and my forced work was being denied a voice to shout.
During this period I was still in a state of alienation further increased by people upset that video had been posted in the first place wanting to put this issue to bed without it being explored to its fullest. It was also a period where I was planning to make a video
The interesting was that I am making this work to make people who was in that room aware of their surroundings but the people who are upset with this video think it has been created to purely show that Hambling is racist and that were not responsible for their role in that conversation. So for me this was the angle that I’m finding more interesting by the day so the challenge was to make another video focusing on the crowd’s reaction.
The fourth vignette focused visually on everyone’s participation in the room where the event took place. In this video I was visible and the speakers and audience was invisible. The idea of making this video was capture how I felt without having the need to use the audio. To capture the feeling of laughter I used a laugher sign in the style of the TV studio recordings for a sitcom when people are told when and where to laugh when the sign lights up. To capture my reaction to the audio I used the three screen technique which I was planning to use for my walking videos
Feb post
For my last uni installation my aim is to look at using 3 screens to describe a narrative.
multiscreen can
*Open up the space of a screen
*Give incite into internal thoughts
* Can make the breaking the forth wall effect more dramatic
* Can give the viewer multiple views within one view
The visuals were created around the audio of the talk when the Hambling quote “slaves would be handy I wouldn’t mind a few and the following laughter place I wanted the camera to zoom into my ear to show the power and the effect that words bring.
The four separate vignettes were put together when I was contacted to take part in a debate about racism by the company the red room. They wanted to show some art work some I sent them all the films that I had created over the past month. It was during this time when I decided to create a petition that the funds from the Hambling painting should not be used because of the ethical weight of the frameworks over that time period. When I found out that there was going to be an debate about this issue 6 weeks after the original incident took place under the title of “are there any limits to free speech” then I felt that it needed outside voices to show how serious this matter was to my uni surroundings. In the petition I created a video calling it “No to £650”
April
Around the same time I found out that the exploding cinema, a coalition of film/video makers developing new modes of exhibition for underground media from DIY screenings, had chosen a film I had submitted months earlier for their April event at the Peckham. I told them about my situation at uni and asked them if I could show the no to £650 video instead and the agreed. it was fitting that this film was being shown at exploding cinema as they are self-funded and one of the reasons why they are is because they do not want to be compromised.
No to £650 -Project 5am
