the problem of ending

With this, my last post, the day before submission, I wish to write a few words on the problematic of ending. As I’ve mentioned previously the work comes to a point where I have to draw the line, whether it be through the work (almost) erasing itself, running into the physical limits of the site, or the time limits of the situation.

Here this ‘live’ journal comes to an end with the denouement of the documentation of my thoughts and processes. As I have attempted to address the ineffable, the excess of what can be made available for representation, much of what I have said in this blog may seem to undermine, contradict and double back on itself. Fittingly I am struggling to articulate this end post and feel it must remain somewhat sketchy and insufficient.

So to the ‘final’ resolution of my work in Plimsoll gallery cannot be viewed in its site of production and intended exhibition as the footage from the installation, the final installation, cannot be played back due to the limitations of the gallery itself. Hence I shall leave the work here, posted in clips (due to the restrictions of this blog) hoping it allows the work to be kept perpetually ‘live’, existing beyond itself, beyond being contained as a final completed work. Remaining as representation of a re-presentation.

projected studio footage (at the end of honours)

Unsure of the outcome, I took the opportunity of a pilot show we were having for our honours submission to take my way of working to the nth degree, projecting most of the footage to date this year ontop of itself.

Using two laptops and two projectors I projected previous recordings of myself working in the studio in consecutive order. I filmed this projection then projected it back on one projector, whilst projecting the next archived footage ontop of it. The result was a consecutive build of past workings, a manual compression of previous work into one sequence. The ‘final’ version, containing 6 layers of footage was so abstracted to the point of being near invisible, so I decided to leave it as a consecutive build, allowing one layer to come in at a time.