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== Idea == | |||
Growing the slimemold onto humanoid shaped forms which each are watching a different part of Paul Sharits "Word Movie". | Growing the slimemold onto humanoid shaped forms which each are watching a different part of Paul Sharits "Word Movie". | ||
The reaction of these objects get observed and described in correlation to the concept of the "homunculus" and its cultural history. This gets documented and examined in a fictional documentary study. | The reaction of these objects get observed and described in correlation to the concept of the "homunculus" and its cultural history. This gets documented and examined in a fictional documentary study. | ||
==Synopsis== | ==Synopsis== | ||
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The Work consists of two parts: The physical environment, the „cinema“, the darkened box in which the slime molds will be permanently placed, if possible grown into a humanoid shape by means of a „skeleton“ consisting of wire and oat flakes and eventually subjected to screenings of Paul Sharits' „Word Movie“. The second part consists of an extensive study, part examination of the experiments, part essayistic interpretation of the project and diary of the researcher. The scientific nature of it will be fictional, a „documentary fiction“, which means the writings will ultimately be literary, though staying true to the form of a scientific study. Additionally, a shortened version of this concept will hint at the implications of the work (alchemy, pseudo- and protoscience, questions of perception and the self, irrationality) which are not directly spelled out in the study. | The Work consists of two parts: The physical environment, the „cinema“, the darkened box in which the slime molds will be permanently placed, if possible grown into a humanoid shape by means of a „skeleton“ consisting of wire and oat flakes and eventually subjected to screenings of Paul Sharits' „Word Movie“. The second part consists of an extensive study, part examination of the experiments, part essayistic interpretation of the project and diary of the researcher. The scientific nature of it will be fictional, a „documentary fiction“, which means the writings will ultimately be literary, though staying true to the form of a scientific study. Additionally, a shortened version of this concept will hint at the implications of the work (alchemy, pseudo- and protoscience, questions of perception and the self, irrationality) which are not directly spelled out in the study. | ||
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Paul Sharit's "Word Movie: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7gExqNaAMo] | Paul Sharit's "Word Movie: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7gExqNaAMo] | ||
== Technical steps == | == Technical steps == | ||
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constructing the cinema | |||
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for the first prototype, I changed the layout of the installation. With only one projector, a different setup makes sense, which also changes and adds to the concept. Instead of sequences, the film is split in the middle, which lends itself to another kind of comparative study, a "left" film, and a "right" film. This works especially, since Word Movie relies heavily on stereo effects: different words appear on the respective sides, making each a seperate and unique sequence. | |||
the practice of charging and changing the object of the spectator, by arbitrarily making a dichotomy between "left" and "right", which in this version of the work, would continue into the comparative study, is a nod to hungarian Fluxus artist Endre Tot's charming series "one dozen rain pOstCarDs 1971-1973". | |||
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