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Images from a desert island (VERY BAD TITLE, i'll think of something better)

What?

A multimedia installation in an exhibition space about North Sentinel Island. [Steve: what will we see? (describe some of the images)] It will be made of a series of excerpts - mostly short moving images pieces, but not exclusively - that were produced in the research process. It will be displayed as a fragmented yet cohesive body of work, in different media - projections, monitors, prints, … - that tries to give a sense of what the project is about and what are the tools that I have been using in it. [what kind of role are you taking on as an artist in this exhibition? are you presenting it as documentary / speculative work ? What will the narrative?] [will you use excerpts of your EYE film? ] >> will be a critique on the violence and the power dynamics that envolved in making images on this place.

Why make it?

I want to make it as an intermediate stage between the early phase of the research that I have been carrying so far and its final outcome, that I still imagine as a one-screen film piece. I feel the need to bring together in a temporarily stable form all the different bits and pieces that this research project has been unfolding, to make sense of their mutual connections and to get a more clear idea of the direction that the project will follow. Ultimately, I would like to have a chance to experiment with possible ways of bringing my research and thoughts outside of my computer/studio/head, showing it in a space and seeing the way it can affect an audience. I think it is a wonderful idea to place the research and all of your work outside of the studio / your head. Do you have any examples of exhibitions / art works / installations that you might drawn inspiration from to build your installation?

Workflow:

Make a selection of the most important elements/excerpts of the research that I feel I want to share with the audience. Make sense of their mutual relation and devise ways to make them visible/understandable/appealing to an audience. Find a space and spend time experimenting ways to bring these elements in it - think of spatial relations, dimensions, time/space experience. Open it to the public, get feedback, learn something from it, carry on the project towards its next steps. [ what are strategies that you can implement to make the research visible / understandable / appealing to an audience ?]

Timetable:

Select fragments/parts of research that I want to display in the installation. Make maquettes, draw plans, write notes about the form that the installation could take, about the way these elements could possibly inhabit and make sense together in an exhibition space. Try to find a suitable space. And find a good compromise between my plans to its physical constraints. Find someone who can deal with the practicalities of organizing an exhibition. Make the exhibition. [ what type of space do you envison the work to be exhibited? ]