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The two way corridor structure shown in the pictures is for a one-to-one mediatised performative installation and is designed as a site specific by making sense of the history of the place and people it is presented to. The work’s meaning is constructed together with the audience’s participation in it. The interaction over a period of 3 days and the information recorded and played back. These will be between 12-1, 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, allowing for 4 people per hour (booking organised accordingly). The environment is an mdf/wood structure. Two small corridors of 1 x 2 mts each (2 mts high), the partition in the middle would have to raised from the floor of a couple of centimiters to allow for cabling to go through. The two corridors are: one for myself and one for a member of the public. We will be sited in front of a screen connected to a camera recording and playing back our own delayed mirror image. At times this will be interfered by selected footage about collapsing/rising buildings in Glasgow (National Library of Scotland and Scottish Screen Archive kindly provided video footage). During the dialogue with a member of public I shall ask questions such as: what is memory? what are you looking at? they will overlap aspects of the past with their experience of the present. The participants will be able to continue their collaboration by leaving their comments or memories on the blog.


 

 

The following equipment will be used: 2 video cameras (high definition minidv), 2
monitors, 2 video delay systems, 1 dvr, 1 video switch, 1 video splitter. Microphones to record to cameras.



 

 

Participant looking at archive footage
I ask: What’s your name? She answers
I ask: What do you think memory is? She answers
I ask: Can you describe a place from memory? She answers
I switch. Participant looking at live recording of herself playing delayed by 8 secs
I ask: What do you see in front of you? She answers
I ask: is that in the present or in the past? She answers
I switch from her own image to the archive footage. I ask: is there a difference between this and this? She answe
I ask: can you go back to the same place you described before form your memory and describe to me again?
I ask how was it different this time? She answers




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