INITIAL IDEAS FOR PIECES OF WORK 2

Following on from my earlier post here are some other ideas for pieces of work I can look into developing to explore and develop my arts practice as laid out in my aims and objectives for my MA in Arts Practice.

Residue: An experimental documentary
Currently at early stages it will be an exploration into the notion of memory and it’s selectivity. I would like to work with alzheimers patients creating bespoke personal documentaries about the key events in their lives to act as memory triggers. I want to see if a documentary has to be for an audience or if it can be incredibly subjective and created for a lone viewer in tandem with the filmmaker and from there possibly find an audience.

Climate Control?: A video installation
Climate change and global warming is an issue which although I have been aware of have not fully appreciated the seriousness of until very recently. One of my closest and oldest friends is one of the key players at Greenpeace trying to publicity and therefore change on this issue. He has been instrumental in getting global warming acknowledged and then acted upon by all of the big players on a global scale. Finally getting tuned in to the debate I have started to realise the grave seriousness of the problem and as a race that we have just tipped over into the point of no return. With the Greenpeace resources hopefully at my disposal I want to create a video installation highlighting the problem and the hypocrisy, politicking, lies, spinning and that successive governments and big business have used to misdirect and create smoke and mirrors around the debate. This in an issue that has only just started to be acknowledged as for real in the public arena.

Test Card: A video installation
Having a career in film and TV there are certain artefacts and devices associated with the job that I use often without thinking and if you stop to think about it I am fascinated by. One of these is the test card used to balance and attune colours in TV both in production and post production. These are recognised by perhaps all (especially the BBC one) but often overlooked, unconsidered or not understood. Working in a visual art colour is hugely important too me and something that I appreciate everywhere and this overlaps into my love of the natural world. I am amazed by the colours apparent in the world around us and their often vibrancy and want to try and bring these two elements together. I want to explore the relationship between the two one being now computer generated and the other natural. I aim to try and collect moving video footage of the colours in a test card as represented in the natural world use them to replace them for the colours on  a test card, with slowly moving images so subtle that the audience will hardly notice them moving at all until up close.