Artist Research:
Since I have been looking at video installations I decided to look at other artist that uses videos in their own work to see how they use them to create piece. The first artists that I looked at where
Jane and Louise Wilson
Jane Wilson and Louise Wilson (born 1967, Newcastle upon Tyne) are British artists who work together as a sibling duo. Jane and Louise Wilson’s art work is based in video, film and photography. I really enjoyed looking at their video pieces they had really deep meanings to them the piece I liked the most was “Erewho” The footage is projected on screens that surround the viewer from multiple sides, including overhead projections, bringing us more into the cinematic experience of the their work.
“Erewhon”
For this new installation, Jane and Louise have filmed several women in a gymnasium inspired by archival photos of ladies exercise classes from 1910. At the time, the concern of procreation in New Zealand was at its height. The medical profession equated a women’s adoption of physical culture with the regeneration of the population. These images perpetuate an anthology of poses in a rigid geometric setting, removing it from a recorded document into an abstraction. This footage is projected on screens that surround the viewer from multiple sides, including overhead projections – bringing us more fully into the cinematic experience of the Wilsons’ work.
