INVENTING THE WAY OF SHOOTING

People Mover from 4exit4 on Vimeo.
Origin of Cool: USA
24 Detroit Artists Turn Train Into Performance Venue
“People Mover” is a short film by 4exit4 Productions about 24 Detroit artists, musicians, and other creatives who, one day in April of this year, turned a Detroit People Mover train into a lively performance venue.




Now I'm looking for various ways of shooting the site and trying to do some experimental stuff for my research.

What is my research question?
At this stage of my project I'm trying to see the Barbican in many different ways, in various forms of recording it. My research question would be :
'How do I see Barbican differently?'
'What does it give me to think about?'
'What is the most interesting conditions and context I find from it?'

MAN ON THE MOON CAN GO WRONG

I 'climbed' the same part of Barbican as below, went up and down several times to record myself in there. I did few editing on this, to show my feelings in that space. A bit like being in an infinite space, I know there's a beginning and an end but it's just so unsure feeling that you're stuck in the space. The moment. I felt this quite often in Barbican, inside and outside. This part I recorded was exceedingly more like that to me. I'm planning on filming this part of Barbican from outside, watching me or people moving in there. After that trying to look for the plans and drawings of Barbican as well to understand a bit more of it.

MAN ON THE MOON-ish

I was exploring Barbican with my laptop again, my only goal this time was just finding another part that I haven't been yet. There was this stairs from the ground to 3rd floor of Barbican Centre, leading to another exit or entrance to each floors. I found it really different to other backgrounds I had in my videos, was enjoying it to walk through this part of Barbican very much. It was glass walls and ceilings that gives me the feeling that I'm passing a certain kind of tube, as a space explorer, to fly to the moon.

BERNHARD LEITNER_SOUND/SPACE/BODY/A PROCESS

BERNHARD LEITNER

SOUND LOCKS

1971. © Atelier Leitner
Slanted and angled sound lines. Intense accentuation of the upper part with diminuendo-movement. Sluice-like pulling through effect

SOUND FIELD I

New York 1972. © Atelier Leitner

SOUND TUBE

Installation 1971. © Atelier Leitner

Immaterial Arching

AERIAL SPACES

San Francisco / Hotel Embarcadero 1973 - 1985
© Atelier Leitner

40-channel composition. "Flight" movements (variously sequenced sound-lines) between forty sound sources (loudspeakers ) distributed through the hall.
Sound material: birdsong.

I MAKE MEAN BEEF STEW

After making few videos at the site and deconstructed videos second by second, I started to have a different thought about the site - all these distorted structures of original one behind me. What does it show or suggest to me? (How will it be a background of my proposals after?) Rather than just doing the same process that I've done last week, what can I develop more in my research process?

UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATION

Me walking into the toilet in Barbican Centre, having an awkward conversation with a lady in there. Yes. Who brings a laptop opened in the toilet? Me.

SECONDARY SNEAKING

Press Release

BERNHARD LEITNER

Earspacebodysound

“I can hear with my knee better than with my calves.” This statement made by Bernhard Leitner, which initially seems absurd, can be explained in light of an interest that he still pursues today with unbroken passion and meticulousness: the study of the relationship between sound, space, and body.  Since the late 1960s, Bernhard Leitner has been working in the realm between architecture, sculpture, and music, conceiving of sounds as constructive material, as architectural elements that allow a space to emerge. Sounds move with various speeds through a space, they rise and fall, resonate back and forth, and bridge dynamic, constantly changing spatial bodies within the static limits of the architectural framework. Idiosyncratic spaces emerge that cannot be fixed visually and are impossible to survey from the outside, audible spaces that can be felt with the entire body. Leitner speaks of “corporeal” hearing, whereby acoustic perception not only takes place by way of the ears, but through the entire body, and each part of the body can hear differently. 

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In recent years, Bernhard Leitner’s sound/space/body installations, that have always developed at the intersection of sound, sculpture, and architecture, refusing any clear location, have begun to attract the interest of artists from the performing arts. Dancers and performers develop their own choreographies along Leitner’s sound/space/bodies and allow new corporeal and movement spaces to emerge in temporal-spatial performances. They allow themselves to be drawn into a universe in which visual, acoustic, temporal, and physical worlds of experience “coincide,” and “being in sound” becomes a “being in the world.”


http://www.bernhardleitner.at/en?CAKEPHP=f0a135e3420b21cec9da5377652daed2  

RATTLING OFF AGAIN

RATTLING OFF

TRYING TO BE AN EXPLORER 2

It will be replaced to a better quality one.

TRYING TO BE AN EXPLORER

I remember I was lost quite often visiting Barbican. There was even a time that I was in the cafeteria, went to toilet (I was of course already not sure how to get there but I thought once I find a way in, I can find way out. But it didn't work like that in Barbican.) couldn't find the way to get back where I was. It was very acceptable mistakes as a first time visitor, but not anymore. I've been to Barbican more than 20 times for sure, still quite confusing to get somewhere exactly. Still asking to information booth.

Without any specific thoughts, I immediately decided to go to Barbican and record whole journey of mine there. One of the reason I used my laptop is that I was so used to bring it to Barbican to use wifi, sitting all day long in that huge building with it. People might be thinking it's just normal to do it and don't bother me recording myself. To add something more to that, I thought it could be different to shoot in the opposite way rather than clicking the camera as usual.

There are 6 videos total, 5 minutes each, exploring on different levels, inside and outside. The video above is showing what I was doing and how it shows background (the site). I'm trying to upload all of videos, with a bit of editing and speed adjustment. Having few ideas of analysing, but it's still so rough to do something about it. Still need to explore and produce lots of materials with researching.

SIX SIX SIX SIX SIX SIX

What feeds my mind?

PRESENCE THROUGH ABSENCE
Invisibility. Something you can't see doesn't mean there's nothing. I'm very curious about invisible structures -this doesn't mean ghost -  that exist so close to us but somehow we can't feel it easily. You think a room is just an empty space in a three dimensional solid object bounded by six square faces. You being in that cube, you see nothing, but the six sides of walls. I want to suggest the possibilities of another thousands different structure/space that you can exist/create in. Not only the solid building is a architecture, but also the space that can be created by the rest of emptiness is.

GRADATION
Levels from the very beginning of the universe (as an infinite point of all existence) to a smallest object on the earth.
Or, simply from sky to buildings in cities, and goes down to smaller objects in the buildings, and so on.

APOPHENIA
The experience of seeing meaningful connections or patterns in random or meaningless data.
Unmotivated seeing of connections.
Specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness. (Not limited to nature, scientific observation.)

SURREAL
Off limits. Studying spatial design, talking about space, always facing the limits of its scale or measurement. The word 'surreal' in front of dealing with those limits- gives it so much freedom that you can't easily have in reality.