Edmund Cook (UK)

The writing is divided into two interlaced scripts.

The first script uses descriptions of a selection of video clips to reconstitute a fictional live experience for an unspecified group of viewers, narrated by an individual. It takes place in a city much like Rotterdam, mainly in the bowels of a very large handling warehouse by the docks.

The second script reflects on some of the theoretical issues that the first script evokes. These include the materiality and distance of images, the subject-object relationship, vernacular and coding, affect and the virtual, liveness and incipience.

The first chapter, 'soft artefacts', concentrates on the relationships between objects and bodies. This is reflected in the first script by the viewers seeing different interelations of these things, accompanied by very physical manifestations of sound.

The second chapter, 'speech filters', moves on to discuss the voice, specifically songs and improvised speech. Consequently, in the first script, the scenes viewed start to become less involved with things and more about what is said around them.

Over the course of the writing, there is a gradual change in focus from what is seen to what is said, from physical material to its dubbing, from the concrete to the live.

This incorporates a rising level of feedback generated through an increasingly personal authorial voice.