(re)crit

An attempt to be making and presenting at the same time, projecting the footage from a previous studio critique back in order to have a conversation with my past self about my work. This is the first time I worked with placing viewers in the position of addressing a moment which they have previously lived and having to respond to footage of their past selves. Perhaps part of the success in this piece is that it can be pulled off in a crit situation as it is often a repeat performance of presenting and talking about recent work with the same audience, particularly in relation to my practice where what I say about one work can easily be applied to the next. There is an inherent struggle to be subject and object at once as I have to flip between performing and presenting. The projected footage at moments seemed to correspond to real time - either answering a question or nodding to a comment. Along with this there was also times where the footage did not meet up, moments where I had to struggle to talk over my projected self, or moments where I moved out of the ‘set’ either in real time or in the projection where I became skewed or was projected onto someone. Hence the viewer can disengage from the status of their reflected selves (which in actuality is merely a projection and can-not respond to the present)and rediscover the real-time of their own history. A sense of presentness create through the suspended time. As the projection lapses out the work can be seen as an independent event, exchanging the atemporality of repetition for the temporality of change.