Experimental Video and Twin Screen Project Thoughts(1)

Ben Rivers is one of the video artists that I found his work very interesting.

Last year in summer when I was doing FMP in my Foundation, one of the tutor told me about Ben Rivers' exhibition in the old BBC building so I went there and was amazed by his installations.



This is a video of that day. First I went to an exhibition by a German artist/musician, Carsten Nicolai, exploring colour and sound. So the first few second of the video is a small fraction of his piece Unicolor(2014). I just filmed a few second just to remind me of his work in the future and I am trying not to disturb his work by filming the work too much. After that few seconds is the abandoned car park of the BBC building exhibiting Ben Rivers' video installations.

About Colours and Sounds

Carsten Nicolai's work was projected on a long wall with two mirrors at the side that expanded the visuals. Alongside the visuals are speakers with strong bass which made the benches vibrate.

When heard of this new video projects I immediately think of this and hopefully develop more work relating sound and visuals.

About Human Body and Technology

Transforming the body:




Using and connecting the body to technology:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9702610.stm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2705235/Google-launches-massive-study-human-body-determine-healthy-person-look-like-detect-diseases-earlier.html

About Twin Screen 

Later on in September I heard of Ben Rivers' new exhibition.

(sorry>< but I only took one picture to remind me the work, I am so sorry...)

Similar styles from the last exhibition but this time involved a twin screen piece. After watching the whole 30 minutes, I concluded that the two screens are the same/similar scenes of the same event but played not in sync, with one descriptive narrative voice in the background. I like how he chooses to display a event with discontinued twin-visuals but one narrative so that our brain can still make sense of it, in my case, a very concentrating way. 

There's another twin-screen work that I know from my country:

Comparing to other main stream artists, Eason Chan's music videos are always more artistic.