Synopsis
Our installation piece will portray connections and networks through
communication between people and focus on the idea that in the modern age,
although society has many platforms of communication, people still find it
difficult to connect and communicate with each other.
We will be
portraying this theme through moving image, our installation will consist of
three screens in a row, side by side. The right hand screen will show a male
subject in his own space trying to reach out and communicate to the female
subject in the far left hand screen, also in her own space. Both the right and
left hand screens will alternate between low key and high key lighting to
switch the viewers focus on which screen they are looking at and to show who's
trying to contact who in that moment. The middle screen will be portraying the sense of separation and distance between them.
The piece will begin with the attempts of
communication being made. This will be seen in the middle screen by showing an
open white space with a table where each of the subjects, on either side, will
leave objects for each other; the screen will also be displaying text. The
objects will portray older forms of communication and will include notes and
letters, telephones, a laptop, TV, Radio
and other forms of music, books and other random objects. The text will portray
newer forms of communications and also appear within the middle screen and will
overlay the moving image. Each of the subjects will be seen sending text
messages which when sent will show up on the middle screen, showing that they
have been undelivered. Along with text messages- webpages, tweets, hashtags,
status’, failed phone calls
and stand alone text will also show up in the centre screen. Throughout the
piece, subjects will then continue reaching into the middle, leaving objects to
try and talk to each other, however, neither receives each others messages or
objects of communication that have been left for one another. The middle screen
eventually fill up with text and objects as it goes on. The piece will end with
the male subject finally picking up a phone call from the girl, only for the
sound to be distorted, her screen will start to glitch to enforce the breakdown
and lack of their connection and her screen will then go black.
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