User:Nan Wang/ thesis03-12
Introduction:
“…For the microscopic debris that covers our clothes and bodies are the mute witnesses, sure and faithful, of all our movements and of all our encounters.”
---Locard, Edmond, The Analysis of Dust Traces, American Journal of Police Science, 1(3), 1930, 279-298.
Dust pilling up in our life. Quietly appearing on the surface of our shelves; floor; table, every corner inside our room.
They always flowing and spreading around us and been considered as Abandoned unwanted, annoying or unpleasant waste of our life.
One day, I take a close look at the dust in my room, before they end up inside vacuum cleaner.
I saw cookie crumbs, sweater fluff, cat fur, my hair, and tobacco debris…
I smoke a cigarette after I comb my hair during the morning; guess visit my living room sit together with my cat drank a cup of coffee with cookies; my friend wearing grey sweeter lying against my cushion…
All the narrative fragments happened in my life start to unfold in front of my eyes…
The research object included in this text is dust.
My works mainly focusing on abstraction video and sound, using both digital and analogue media, researching how micro-perceptions and fragmented memories, construct individual past reality. Since I attract by dust,
gradually it become instrument for sound, elements for images, object to sort, grammar of my works.
I am taking the position of sound and image-maker, interpreted dust under interdisciplinary context, and then intergrade into my works conceptually materially and visually.
Chapter 1 evidence of being.
1. what is dust
the ambivalent aesthetic and cultural interpretation:
Dust is Beautiful however deadly, insignificant yet everywhere.
Dust can be deadly:
Poisonous dust is the product of industry and war. Dust could cause a severe asthma attack. Dust can be beautiful:
A light dusting applied by the confectioner, glittering motes caught in a sunbeam. Rain-clouds are made partly of dust, and so are sunsets. Then I will dust and location and special distribution. Art works related to dust in culture and political angle.
2 DUST-The underlying narrative
First I will look at dust from a forensic perspective, how forensic expert Locard, Edmond solving a crime by investigating dust and trace. Deduction use for investigating a crime by looking at trace, putting clues together and deduct what happened to a crime scene.
This approach by looking at micro-material and generate images of pass. Imaginary and Imagery both are key elements of crime investigation.
This forensic research and cases study from < The Analysis of Dust Traces > written by Locard Edmond 1930, inspired my of a material based abstraction filmmaking.
What will happens if I only display micro-material as abstraction visual elements. Can I use dust as clues and intervals of flicker images and sound as simulation. Let audience generate self-directed imaginative images and narrative?
Consider dust as past tense of grammar
In the field of literature, dust has been conceptualized as matter-in-waiting and decay. Georges Bataille: “a stealth-like incursion from the future that slowly disavows the vitalism of all that it touches.”
Pre-existent realities. Prior events. Older and abandon vision of ourselves. As sound and image-maker, I use dust as past tense grammar for narrative telling. Waste. Abandon.
Dust makes me look at how human interaction and communication in different angle. The air-borne nature allows micro-material exchange between us without physical contact.
The metabolism process of our bodies keeps sloughed waste and dead skin cells. We leave trace of material base evidence through space and time. As air-borne micro –material, dust spread distribute and diffuse in space. When we encounter with others. There always Micro Material exchange, without physical touch. We are constantly inhaling others around us. Others take small part of our metabolism process, we inhaling others and exhaling, sloughing excess waste back to the air again.
The noisy and redundancy nature:
Dust takes form of particles, yet big enough to identify its origin visually. A mixture of micro-compounds. Noisy, Impure and complex nature visually and material wise. consider dust as Data packets.
Chapter 2 Capture and sorting the dust:
Image and sound making process Steps and compare to theory.
notes:The archaeology nature of dust(The discipline of things)
The discipline of things chapter5 Documents and imagery Digital analog memories The discipline of things chapter6 Futures for things: Memory Practices and digital translation.
Dust and sound
The noise nature of dust Optical sound Acoustic dust
Dust on film
compare to construction film
Scan Dust
Digital noise
Sorting the dust
archiving
Dairy—audio filed recording.
Editing
Visual music
Manipulate the dust.
Chapter 3: The construction of Dust room:
The montage of the work final layout, overall experience. Montage of fragmented memories