MAPS AND NETWORKS: Narrowed Down Idea

Another idea which has sprung to mind also is the idea of disconnection, which is the opposite of the other ideas I have mentioned before which would focus on connection. The route I would take is how people can disconnect themselves from the earth around them. People disconnect themselves in many different ways and for many different reasons. I could still use the diegetic sounds of peoples voices and warp them in ways i.e. how the voices in these sound like -

I want to include music, potentially warped and experimental, around these voices too. Visually I still want to incorporate multiple screens (minimum 3 screens), inspired by John Akromfrah's 6 screen 'Purple'. Another thing I liked about this piece is how some titles were included in between the landscape shots that had an entire purple background with just a tiny little white title in the middle. I liked how since the screens were so big and there were multiple of them, the purple lit the entire room. This got me thinking about lighting and how I want to incorporate it into my piece. I would say my piece would be a sound video installation. Another option is to make it interactive by asking questions to the viewer through titles or deciding to take the opposite route of sending a message and vibe to the viewer through aesthetics, visuals and sound.

The way I want my piece to be presented like is inspired by the way a lot of the pieces in The Store X are presented. I really enjoyed and took a lot of inspiration from this exhibition when I went last year in October 2018, I loved the piece Wu Tsang's 'The Looks' and Kahlil Joseph's 'Fly Paper'. The sound and music for both of them is what I loved most, how it really made an impression and left a certain vibe to the viewer.

I searched disconnection art in google and I found a photographer called Jamie Brisick, who took a series of photos which portray disconnection and alienation, mainly within a big city. He said this:

“These photos are about the alienation and the disconnect in the big city. When I first moved to Sydney I was here by myself so I probably felt very disconnected by being on the other side of the world, and disconnected to the space and the big city. A lot of the photos I take are about the disconnect, and to some extent I’m always searching for that disconnected look in people.”

I took a lot of inspiration from these photos for my own project:

There's also the option of combining disconnection with fears and anxiety. One of mine being fear of illness and death, so I could explore that fear and isolation it brings me, with shots of hospital wings, things within a hospital, all with a certain aesthetic in mind. I would bring in colour correction and things like that which have strong yellow colours, reds for blood etc. The only issue that would bring is getting permission to film in a hospital. In my head an ideal thing for me would to have a shot of a nurse taking a sample of blood from someone from their arm, or injecting them with an injection. The easiest way to do this would be to film myself since I can provide my own consent for it but I don't know if it's possible to get permission to film in a doctor's practice or hospital. This collection of shots would help me face and deal with a very deep rooted fear of mine to see it all on screen, of things happening to me in a hospital. The way this idea would link to Maps and Networks however is through how it connects to a wider network of anxiety that a wide array of people suffer with, even though this specific fear is relevant for me.