(5th April 2010 continued)
15/03/10
Is there a way of incorporating sounds related to specific parts of / marks on carpet? Some documented sounds (movement within the room the carpet has come from, sounds of the house) mixed up with layers of ‘faked’ sounds?
17/03/10
Documentation as trace
Different ways of documenting the space – the carpet itself, photographing, videoing. The carpet contains marks and echoes of a previous existence in this everyday context; I’m intending to use alternative photographic processes to record stills of the space – the images become about the process itself as well as the space I’m photographing; using video to record different parts of the space gradually fading into other parts, introducing a time-based element to the recording / documenting process.
But all documentations are traces – they’re reliant on a different media, they’re a shift away from the thing they’re documenting. So perhaps a way forward is to use the media to explore the space, using the way that the media shifts the understanding of that space as part of the idea of these traces I’m looking at.
19/03/10
How would a series of video sequences work? Each looks at a small section of the space, explores it in a way that’s sympathetic to that area. Sometimes the separate sequences overlap, not quite together, sometimes seamless other times jarring. Re-visit various sections of shots, so there’s suggestions of repeating, layering … They’re then projected together, some on the floor, perhaps others on the walls or on screens. But again, maybe this is overcomplicating it.
