This piece could only be experienced by one person at a time,(although what they were seeing could be seen by an audience) who wore a head-mounted display and a motion-tracking vest. This looks cumbersome in the documentation, but apparently viewers overcame the physical hindrance and became totally involved in the piece, so much so that viewing time had to be limited.
The wearer could rise or fall into one of 12 "world-spaces" (Forest, Earth, Abyss, Lifeworld, Pond....) by using their breathing and balance to take them to the different spaces, or hover in the spaces between.
I would have loved to see this piece. It is as far-removed from 3D computer graphics as it can be, using layers of transparency, layered soundtracks, layered images. Char Davies is a painter and a free-diver (diving without oxygen tanks, controlling the body critically by breathing) and all these experiences come together in this piece.
"By changing space, by leaving the space of one's usual sensibilities, one enters into communication with a space that is psychically innovating...For we do not change place, we change our nature."
"The Poetics of Space", Gaston Bachelard, 1964.
2 comments:
good points and the details are more precise than somewhere else, thanks.
- Joe
Hi Joe, thanks for your comment. I'm surprised and pleased to find a comment; this blog is a few years old but it forms part of my ongoing research. I wonder who you are and how you found it?
kind regards,
Penny
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