SCHISM / 2, my end of year show, ran Wednesday-Saturday. After conversations with the curator about interacting with the space, I installed my work A Can of Coke beneath a piano. This was a multimedia self portrait using video, audio, text and found objects to depict my human experiences of failure, loss and self-discovery, maintaining the thin line between comic and tragic and revealing a vulnerability as well as an ambiguity to the viewer. When crouching down, a space was revealed with a video of the nude artist falling off a stack of chairs (https://youtu.be/Qyg6BT5FLjQ) with objects representing him hung in the foreground as the words I CAN'T served as a backdrop. From the TV came the soundtrack of this poem being read:
I can, I can't
a can of coke
it's a slowdive
to know why we're here
somewhere
nowhere.
I am her
you are me
and I am drunk
too drunk to dream
or be anything
but falling
in love
and off this plastic tower.
how did it come to this?
shit faced
wasting space, time and braincells
hell is other people
but I want to keep you close
in case I fall again.
The process of creating A Can of Coke has encouraged me to continue to further develop installation work using video and sound in particular. What is particularly effective with using such mediums is that when combined with objects the viewer is made to engage with the work, attempting to find connections between the components and decipher meaning from the piece as a whole, allowing the artist to play with devices of ambiguity, communication and interpretation.
I can, I can't
a can of coke
it's a slowdive
to know why we're here
somewhere
nowhere.
I am her
you are me
and I am drunk
too drunk to dream
or be anything
but falling
in love
and off this plastic tower.
how did it come to this?
shit faced
wasting space, time and braincells
hell is other people
but I want to keep you close
in case I fall again.
The process of creating A Can of Coke has encouraged me to continue to further develop installation work using video and sound in particular. What is particularly effective with using such mediums is that when combined with objects the viewer is made to engage with the work, attempting to find connections between the components and decipher meaning from the piece as a whole, allowing the artist to play with devices of ambiguity, communication and interpretation.