RE-DEFINING PERFORMANCE - VIEWPORT + VIDEO

EXPERIMENT 1: MOBILE VIEWPORT + VIDEO
Feb. 11, 2014

We engaged in a simple group exercise to experience and document the body in time and space. As a group, we simulated a sort of mobile human accordion, with moving parts, yet collectively joined. Using string as a tool that helped us to visually register the distance and movement between bodies, students successively moved together and apart from the group in order to attain a hierarchical perspectival documentation of one another.

Each student each documented another human subject (and set of subjects) with handheld video cameras. The way the scene is framed by your video camera is your personal viewport. In this exercise, each student would physically experience how distance/vicinity affects this viewport, or perspective.

Students then produced and edited videos that documented individual perspectives of the group exercise, and diagramed out (using basic animation techniques) their movements in relationship to others in plan view.