Final composition video

So, here it is...The final composition

Final Video from Nathalie Moore on Vimeo.

red ink projections

Here are some of the red ink drip protections I created on my body. The colours help to ground the mood of my thoughts; i.e. in this case the red projections illustrate a negative 'mind'.

red ink drip projections from Nathalie Moore on Vimeo.

Tony Oursler

Oursler's work has a general focus on the 'face', and he is most well known for the array of surfaces he creates to project his videos onto (especially his disembodied head puppets). The face is important to him because ''...it's the way we communicate...It's really the way into our identity and empathy''(Oursler T.). So if I am talking about my anxieties, the face, the sounds and the body language all help to relay and communicate these feelings.

He uses sound scores of overlapping words. that are then coupled with filmed images that are projected onto interesting objects. The source material is often taken from popular culture, in particular television. Oursler's most recent work works on the notion of how people take the technology and the culture of mass media and personalise it and make it a part of their lives.

If a person is talking in a video, the audience interacts with it, as they feel that the speaker is talking to them as an individual. This is the sort of thing I have chosen to, as I have made several audio recordings of myself speaking about the external and internal aspects of meditation.

He also uses harsh lighting on his subjects when filming. This creates shadows and highlights on the subject allowing the viewer to see different aesthetics of the same thing. Having used projections in this project, I can begin to understand the effects that can be obtained from this method of working; i.e. adding emphasis to facial expressions and body gestures.

'ASL' (2008) film installation at Lisson gallery

http://vimeo.com/7928811

raw video footage

Here are some of the raw video footage I used in my film. Repetition of the same footage helps to create motifs with the themes within the film.

field shot from Nathalie Moore on Vimeo.

Untitled from Nathalie Moore on Vimeo.

breathing shot from Nathalie Moore on Vimeo.

Sitting down from Nathalie Moore on Vimeo.

hands in the mudra from Nathalie Moore on Vimeo.

Close up of face - outside from Nathalie Moore on Vimeo.

light through trees from Nathalie Moore on Vimeo.

Untitled from Nathalie Moore on Vimeo.

installation ideas and viewer intent

Material display ideas for installation-

I have chosen red for the feature colour of my installation, as it is the colour I associate with meditation as I meditate at the buddhist centre and my room, which both have red walls.

In theory I should somehow be connecting the installation to the film itself, but I feel that if I did that then it would distract too much form the film. I want to create a simple, but warm and sensual environment that echo's the theme of meditation and allows the viewer to interact with the film and surroundings.

Pipilotti Rist

PIpilotto Rist is a Swedish film/installation artist and her installations that she creates could be described as installation environments. The themes of her work focus on the sensual aspects of life; the sense of being in the world, being a body and a sensory organism,

''Rist's work is visceral, earthy, sexy, full of life. Up on the mezzanine.'' (Searke A. 2011)

Limitations of her 'self' expressed through her work such as displaying the products we use to clean with we destroy the planet with. She experiments with the scale of her projections sometimes projecting them very small, or extremely large, on the floor etc...

and even in the way in which it is viewed

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/26/pipilotti-rist-hayward-gallery-review

blue ink drip projections

ink drip projections from Nathalie Moore on Vimeo.