Took Off-cutter in the form of Real/Non-Real to Manchester this weekend as part of habarts ‘Emergency’, more than 40 live art pieces across the city. I was in Castlefield Gallery, with objects set out on trestles. I moved the the camera around very slowly amongst so the images were projected onto the wall behind, somtimes turning the camera so the horizon tipped and slid.
Jonathan, the technician, suggested setting the camera on black and white, as the objects themselves are all monochrome/wood. This had the advantage of not having flashes of incidental colour from the audience.
A weird thing turns out to happen when the camera looks at itself on screen – it spins into infinity like looking in back-to-back mirrors. Delicious!
Now I want more lenses, and to scale it all up, bigger screen, also more minute assemblages. And a bigger more complex black feathery thing.
