Wednesday, March 26, 2008

table-top retroactive thoughts.

I did not reflect on my table-top performance immediately afterward except for the thought that it was a mistake not to have the second image focused. I did a double projection performance that was quite spontaneous due to my bringing of mine own projector to class, when the classroom already had a 16mm projector on hand. And who am I not to take advantage of an opportunity like that. So I quick spliced together another role of film and grabbed different colored advertisements. And I was ready for my performance, aptly and promptly named "The screen is an arbitrary surface." A notion that I have been wrestling with for a long time, and have worked with the idea in an earlier video for a different class. The performance went pretty good, about half way through I hit my stride and had a nice moment of seeing myself on film upside down. And upon further reflection the unfocused image and my representation of myself focused workd pretty well, was it an unintended metaphor??

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