Thought Process

I Can’t Fight It

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Final Schedule

15th to 22nd: Do 2 more tests and analyse results

22nd to 29th: Do 2 more tests and mock-up installation

29th to 5th: Test projection materials and develop strategy for building

5th to 12th: Do final walks

12th to 19th: Finalize setup and prepare for presentation

From now on I need to settle down and make sure that this project is manifested in the way that is best for it in the time and space that I have. I will develop a way for a viewer to become immersed in the performance, to enter the space of the performer. The installation should allow the viewer to only see the outside of the enclosure and the documentation video of the performance will be displayed on the outside. When the viewer enters the space, they can no longer see the performer because they have taken on its form. However instead of looking within they look outward towards a hyper-documentation of the performers movement through space. The 8 camera viewpoints are projected within the space based on their location on the body. The viewer has stepped into the performer’s shell. The absence of the performers body allows the viewer to experience the experiences of the other. By stepping into the performers shell they are able to experience the passing of time and the movement through space of the “other”. If the experience of a body in space can be replicated for the body of another then does the “performer” exist in that time?

I need to write more about this and clarify what I mean but long story short I need to start sketching out and prototyping how I am going to build this thing!

John Burroughs on the view from the Summit of Slide Mountain

We saw the world as the hawk or the balloonist sees it when he is three thousand feet in the air. How soft and flowing all the outlines of the hills and mountains beneath us looked! The forests dropped down and undulated away over them, covering them like a carpet …

All was mountain and forest on every hand. Civilization seemed to have done little more than to have scratched this rough, shaggy surface of the earth here and there. In any such view, the wild, the aboriginal, the geographical greatly predominate. The works of man dwindle, and the original features of the huge globe come out. Every single object or point is dwarfed; the valley of the Hudson is only a wrinkle in the earth’s surface. You discover with a feeling of surprise that the great thing is the earth itself, which stretches away on every hand so far beyond your ken.

Slide Mountain

Slide may have been to John Burroughs what Everest was to Sir Edmund Hillary or what Denali was to Bradford Washburn. The man and mountain are inextricably linked. Burroughs wrote reverently about this, the tallest of the Catskills. He looked admiringly from afar at the peak that reminded him of a “gigantic horse (that) has got his head down grazing” long before he dared to try to sit on its back. In his essay, “The Heart of the Southern Catskills,” the turn-of-the-20th-century naturalist and poet wrote that Slide had “been a summons and a challenge to me for many years.”

At long last, he climbed. His ascent and writings are said to have “introduced Slide Mountain to the world.” Slide is now regarded, and rightfully so, as one of the most enjoyable outings in the Catskills.

http://www.footprintpress.com/PeakExperiences/Ulster_County.htm