Douglas Gordon - Phantom 2011

'I think it's supposed to be about provoking enough of a memory that people take it away and do their own thing with it. For me, artwork... is something that you should be able to take away—you don't have to be present in front of it, and that's the potency of the artwork when it works.' —Douglas Gordon
This is a video of an eye, covered in black makeup, crying. The video is also in slow motion, and the slow motion makes the crying eye seem even more emotional to the viewer, its very intense sadness. What captured me about this piece is that I can relate this to my own work. Douglas Gordon is working with slow motion, which I also use often in my work, and also he is looking at emotions, which is something I am also becoming increasingly interested in. I like this idea also of provoking a memory that he talks of above in the quote, or provoking an emotion from the viewer.

Douglas Gordon - Pretty much every film and video work from about 1992 until now

Looking at multiple videos I came across Douglas Gordon, who in this piece displayed lots of different video pieces all on different monitors. They are all of a similar size, but all slightly different which is interesting. Some of the monitors had headphones, and some were just silent. This visually is a very exciting piece, with lots of different movements happening on all of the screens.

Multiple screens.

Following the last post about having multiple projections, I talked about how I wanted to incorporated projection and monitors, and I have found this video showing how Bruce Nauman did just that. The use of projection and monitors is proven to work in this video, this is something I will try myself. He is focusing on movement in his videos, and repetition. This is something which is also of an interest to me. 

Third Party - Sam Taylor Wood

I am still very interested in displaying videos on multiple projections or screens. This piece by Sam Taylor-Wood caught my attention as she is not only using multiple projections, but she is using different sized projections as well. This is something i would like to try, either as projections or on monitors, or maybe mix the two together. 

Two Screen Projection

This is a short clip of a two screen projection i did. Both projecton's are the same video clip, however I reduced the speed of the one on the left hand side to 50% and the one on the right to 25%. So they are both in slow motion but at different speeds. I was just looking at how the different speeds looked projected side by side.

The Warm up.

 This is a video that i made a while back. It goes with the video 'The Come Down of Loosing'. This was the video of the warm up before the fight, before he lost. I like the different emotion shown in each video, the contrast.

The Come Down of Loosing.

I am currently collaborating with Attleborough boxing club for a project, and last weekend I went away to Newcastle as a coach for boxer Milo Clay who was competing in the the National finals. Unfortunately he lost in the quater finals. I filmed him warming up, and then I filmed him after the fight. This is a video of him after the fight, I wanted to look at the emotions that he was going through at the time. I slowed the video down and removed the audio to focus the viewer on his emotions.