.. untitled states ..skyclad

 

materials: table, plastic horse, balloons, paper, video camera, monitor, micorphones (2x PZM), biofeedback monitor, sound processing (wah pedal, digital delay, compressor), amplification

Winter 1999. Field work on daily walks to a field of horses above village of St.Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire. Objects made from collected horsehair and hazel rods. Work installed at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff as part of short residency; culminating in 6 hour durational event, titled skyclad. Small black plastic horse on table top, digicam closeup transmitted to monitor at other end of room. Each hour horse is painted a different colour. Room is microphoned, movement and any viewers intervention is amplified, delayed and dowsed/ mixed live. Photo interventions every hour by photographer Phil Martin. A daylight work, there is video feedback of the image as light fades. Ultimately horse is burned, attached to a helium balloon and released to the sky along with paper horses attached to other balloons by audience members. Ends in darkness.

sound:

video:

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