Here is the artist statement:
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Artist Statement
Instructions + Observation = Cinema
Chan Yik Tung 53894428
This is a site-specific interactive artwork that is under the influence of Fluxus: art is the action. Audience become participant and sit on the sofa. With the aid of audio instructions and looking at the frame, their own cinema start. By observing people going through or avoid the frame and listening to the questions in the audio, audience should be able to develop a movie in their brain. This artwork aims to tell that everyone of us are stories of our own, and you can see a movie just by observing one moment of a person’s life. It is also an observation practise for phubbers.
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About the artwork:
“The true source of art is not in subjective feeling and the creative process, but in the everyday presence of events happening in an environment.”
— John Cage
This is a site-specific artwork that is under the influence of Fluxus: art is the action and can be driven by solely an instruction. Participant have to set up a cinema of their own by both following instructions and their choices that being made. The interaction between the thinking of participant and the environment is a crucial element in this artwork. Every decisions that the participant made change the outcome of the process. With the aid of audio instructions and looking at the frame, the own cinema of the participant start in his/her brain. By observing people going through or avoid the frame and listening to the questions in the audio, participant should be able to develop a movie in their brain. This artwork aims to tell that everyone of us are stories of our own, and you can see a movie just by observing one moment of a person’s life. It is also an observation practise for phubbers. The artwork crossed the media of our brain which changed visual and environment to text/ audio/ smell/ visual… everything that can happen in imagination, and form a cinema.
Venue:
It is all up to the participant where he/she want to observe. It is suggested to be somewhere with high mobility of people with different kind of people.
List of venues that is recommended:
Participant living estate, MTR stations, Sai Yeung Choi Street, Avenue of Stars, campuses, in front of supermarkets, in front of food shops etc.
Set up:
A sofa: a comfortable one, can be more than one seat if the participant want more people to join in, but not too big that block the road
A frame: at least big enough to allow 2 normal adults to pass together
A music gadget with earphones: stored and play the attached audio
A wire/ a stand: to hang the frame or to hold the frame in a fixed position
p.s. a sample setup can be found in the folder
Question examples in the audio:
- How was his/her/its Day?
- What does he/she/it do in his/her/its free time?
- Did he/she/it comb his/her/its hair today? Who do it for him/her/it?
- Is there something he/she/it has dreamed of doing for a long time?
- If he/she/it knew that he/she/it would die suddenly, would he/she/it change anything about the way he/she/it is? If so, what?
- Did he/she/it poo or pee before going out? Is it stinky?
- If he/she/it could take a one month trip anywhere and money was not a consideration, where would he/she/it go?
- If he/she/it had one day in his/her/its life to live over, which would he/she/it choose and why?
- What do he/she/it think is the single best decision he/she/it has made in his/her/its life so far?
- Could he/she/it name one thing he/she/it could do to improve any important relationship in his/her/its life? What is that?
- If he/she/it could change anything about the way he/her/it were raised, what would it be?
- What is his/her/its most treasured memory?
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Research
Cinema is just like a place telling stories. And sometimes stories don't have to be very song. There is a competition of Six word tales. Here are the examples:
1. The smallest coffins are the heaviest
2. Brought roses home; keys didn’t fit.
3. Strangers. Friends. Best friends. Lovers.Strangers.
4. Goodbye mission control. Thanks for trying.
5. Voyager still transmitted. But earth didn’t.
6. One bullet is a lifetime supply.
7. Mom taught me how to shave.
8. Introduced myself to mom today, again.
9. I just saw my reflection blink.
10. I met soul mate, she didn’t.
11. An only son; a folded flag.
12. Passengers, this isn’t your captain speaking.
13. Just married, read the shattered wind-shield.
14. Siri, delete mom from my contacts.
15. Jump. Then I changed my mind.
16. He hit send, then a tree.
17. Ever seen chalk outlines that small?
18. What’s your return policy on rings?
19. “Its our fiftieth, table for one”
1. The smallest coffins are the heaviest
2. Brought roses home; keys didn’t fit.
3. Strangers. Friends. Best friends. Lovers.Strangers.
4. Goodbye mission control. Thanks for trying.
5. Voyager still transmitted. But earth didn’t.
6. One bullet is a lifetime supply.
7. Mom taught me how to shave.
8. Introduced myself to mom today, again.
9. I just saw my reflection blink.
10. I met soul mate, she didn’t.
11. An only son; a folded flag.
12. Passengers, this isn’t your captain speaking.
13. Just married, read the shattered wind-shield.
14. Siri, delete mom from my contacts.
15. Jump. Then I changed my mind.
16. He hit send, then a tree.
17. Ever seen chalk outlines that small?
18. What’s your return policy on rings?
19. “Its our fiftieth, table for one”
Brain-storming
What is cross-media art?
Cinema in the past used to give audience stimulation, only in visual and hearing, through continuous images and sound. Then, it developed the technology of 3D which allow the images to pop out. Now, as far as i know, cinema can give vibration and odor with improvement in set up, this give audience a more realistic experience when watching movie.
However, they are just fake.
Therefore, I am thinking to bring movie to life through bring the audience to real life, not enjoying the movie just by sitting in the cinema, but rather experience the movie.
1. Go into the set
Sometimes the environment of the movies is cut due to close shots of characters and editing. So if there is a video that provide instruction to the audience, then the audience can be immersed in the video when they are both watching the video and walking the same settings. For example, "Go to the roof of CMC to start." "Walk down the stairs for 3 steps and stop." "Now go to 5th floor and turn left" etc. And the characters in the video is at the same situation.
2. Contrasting experience
Audience is given a text or a soundless video to read or watch, then music which have a contradicting feeling give would be played, like reading sad article with upbeat songs.
2. Contrasting experience
Audience is given a text or a soundless video to read or watch, then music which have a contradicting feeling give would be played, like reading sad article with upbeat songs.
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