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-Theme:  Mutually Intelligible
+Theme:  A 3-screen video installation, loop
-Background:
+Concept:
-.  I remember the first few meetings and classes when I got here last semester, they were all in German.  And without any knowledge in the German language, it sounded like noises to me and I started making up the content when they talked.  The initial idea that I came up was to film some of the lectures and edit subtiles on the images, which would be totally unrelated to the acutal content that they were discussing.
+.  Replacing dialogues from my previous experience which is familiar to me (languagewise) to the present expereince I have in Weimar which is not comprehensible, given that German is not even my third language.
+.  Synchronisation in movies.
+.  It was how I usually make sense of something I could not understand, however given the visual can be a separate track for comprehensing experience, I can therefore invent a familiar audio that I can tr making sense out of the images.
-.  I have been attending lectures and workshops that are held almost entirely in German.  To me, sitting in a classroom for more than 6 hours and listening to something not comprehensible at all is kind of a torture.  Similarily, I am also interested to find out how would a person feels when he/she is forced to listen to something not in his/her first language.
+Presentation and Content:
-.  The expereince of watching movies here in Germany is pretty hard because most of the movies, they are synchronised with German language instead of screening the original audio version.
+The installation shows two particular thing I did on two random days and the people I met in Weimar on three separate TV screens.
-Concept:
+.  Screen 1 - The Screens
+A collage of the footages of a WM game (Germany vs Ghana) that I was viewing on my laptop, including livestream, TV, youtube highlights, FIFA (playstation), while the audio is taken on the same time of the match from a Portuguese channel that I used to watch football games.
-.  Select a (or some) German movies and extract some of the scenes and/or shots without the audio
+.  Screen 2 - The Park
-.  Select a collection of foreign movies and extract the audio (dialogue) from some of the scenes and/or shots
+It shows what I saw on a random day at the Park; dubbing of a Cantonese dialogue from a Hong Kong movie while the visual shows some German people talking.
-.  Synchronise the extracted images and audio and export it as a short video
+.  Screen 3
+A collage of distorted close ups of the people I met in Weimar with sounds they produced when they want to express (eg. emotionally)themselves.
-*4.  Create a booth that contains monitor and keyboard buttons that one can select languages (no German available) for viewing the video.
-*I do not know the technical parts to build a booth with sensory buttons...