Film sketches
The first attempt at the film is here The subsequent clips are for further versions and ideas that haven't found their way into a new full version yet. The backdrop is unfinished.
The caption is as follows: the short story of Ganglot:
'Hermes (Greek god of messengers, tricksters and thieves) has been travelling on the folds of time. He intercepts a communication from Ganglot, servant to Viking goddess Hel, benign overseer of those who have died of natural causes or illness. Ganglot had wished for an audience with Viking god Freyr but ends up meeting Greek gods Athena and Hephaestus.'
In the context of an exhibition examining the effects the pandemic, maybe the caption should also contain something along the lines of: 'an artist’s thought process in response to zoom: an asymmetric conversation inside the artist’s head, flailing attempts at introducing haptic elements that are thwarted by zoom, re-engaging with the imagination as a means to find solutions, reverie as methodology'.
I have submitted this for a group exhibition. I have said that the film is yet to change and be refined. I've also said that the garment and a wall-hanging (that will hang behind Ganglot in the film) will also be exhibited in the space. The further apart each element is, the better, so that the viewer is able to assess each piece on its own terms (in relation to its own genre) as well as part of a whole.
The story was created through automatic writing, dreaming/reverie, (a method highlighted by the Surrealists and, Dadaists, but as I'm sure they'd agree, really belongs to everyone). A resource where time and space are pretty flexible. I had been pondering the zoom technology.
The caption is as follows: the short story of Ganglot:
'Hermes (Greek god of messengers, tricksters and thieves) has been travelling on the folds of time. He intercepts a communication from Ganglot, servant to Viking goddess Hel, benign overseer of those who have died of natural causes or illness. Ganglot had wished for an audience with Viking god Freyr but ends up meeting Greek gods Athena and Hephaestus.'
In the context of an exhibition examining the effects the pandemic, maybe the caption should also contain something along the lines of: 'an artist’s thought process in response to zoom: an asymmetric conversation inside the artist’s head, flailing attempts at introducing haptic elements that are thwarted by zoom, re-engaging with the imagination as a means to find solutions, reverie as methodology'.
I have submitted this for a group exhibition. I have said that the film is yet to change and be refined. I've also said that the garment and a wall-hanging (that will hang behind Ganglot in the film) will also be exhibited in the space. The further apart each element is, the better, so that the viewer is able to assess each piece on its own terms (in relation to its own genre) as well as part of a whole.
The story was created through automatic writing, dreaming/reverie, (a method highlighted by the Surrealists and, Dadaists, but as I'm sure they'd agree, really belongs to everyone). A resource where time and space are pretty flexible. I had been pondering the zoom technology.
