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30 channel video installation
Lexicon for the emotionally intelligent
takes as its material a series of concepts which do not have
words or names in our language but ought to in a more sensitive
and interesting society.
Some examples
- The sensation that one neither agrees
nor disagrees with what is being said to one, but that one
simply wishes to depart from the presence of the speaker.
- Addressing a machine.
- Apologizing as a form of attack.
- Needless and offensive apologies.
- The span of a man’s consciousness.
- A reverie that lasts more than
twenty years.
- Long dark hair
- The feeling of delight that precedes
and precipitates waking.
- Pleasant laughter that is nevertheless
unwelcome.
- The enjoyment of a year or a day
by doing nothing.
- The waste of a day or a year by
doing nothing.
- Mystical state attained through
inaction.
- A struggle in which not one word
is spoken.
- The part of one’s life unavailable
to other people.
- Anything or anyone out-of-sight
that one senses will never return.
- The remembrance, in bed, of campfires.
- The love of a person that becomes
especially vivid when he or she is out-of-sight.
These concepts and others appear as
text on the screen (one per screen), waivering for about 20
seconds preceded and followed by an audio clip which does not
necessarily illustrate the concept but which either amplifies
it or sets up a strange association between sound and text concept.
The audio clips are taken mostly from modified field recordings,
sounds like the wingbeats of a flock of pigeons taking off suddenly,
a distant and barely perceptible political speech, a campfire
song, wind, peripheral laughter.
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