In terms of Cardiff's practice, I am particularly interested in an intention of the video walks (although it could be said of the majority of Cardiff's work) that she describes as the "strange disjunction for the viewer about what is real". In essence, this disjunction arises from being presented with an apparently normal situation that the artist subverts, with varying degrees of extremity and theatricality. For example, the audio walks are mostly recorded directly in the exact same location as the participant is asked to walk, therefore the differences will be subtle, depending on the intensity of place, but nonetheless unsettling - traffic noise is traffic noise, but if it doesn't match what you see...
At this point I'm thinking about strands of influence from Cardiff:
- Robotic automation (The Killing Machine)
- Generation of sound through automation
- Automation as communication of organic process (Pianorama)
- Strange disjunction (see above)
My response will be a combination of these and a simple, more traditional, less abstracted narrative...
MECHANICAL INSTRUMENTATION
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MUSICBOX
HAND-CRANK
DEFYING CONTEXT | MODEL T FORD
At this point I'm toying with the concept of creating a functioning Musicbox housed in an unusual way - bringing a mis-scaled Model T Ford to an unlikely setting in the present as an automated hand-cranked Musicbox...
MUZAKBOX
An incredible object that plays unbearably inane music.
I'll come back to this.
KINETICS
Besides focusing on physical automated action, I'm also interested in the kinetic forces that instigate automation. Like labour and reward if you like; it takes effort to blow up a balloon or it takes effort to wind a music box, and the effort it takes to wind-up an old tin robot is massively disproportionate to the feats it then performs!
AUTOMATA
ATOMIC ERA TIN ROBOTS
COLD WAR
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GODZILLA
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MIGHTY ROBOT
Taking all of these into consideration I began mind-mapping and developed the idea of a mighty robot who finds himself defunct, stripped of his power and forgotten.
SKETCHBOOK PAGES
MIGHTY ROBOT | DESIGN
MIGHTY ROBOT | STATIC
MIGHTY ROBOT | COMPOSITE
As above, I intend to composite Mighty Robot into separately photographed and composited scenes. Bringing Mighty Robot into a stark, hyper-real, contemporary world.
TEASER TRAILER
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