Birds Eye View of Installation Proposal
Side View of Installation Proposal
Front View Of Installation Proposal
WORK TYPE: Audio Visual, Collage piece.
TECH SPECS: Projector, Mac Mini, Keyboard & Mouse, HDMI Cable, Two Speaker Cables, Two Amplifiers, Blackout Cloth for one small window.
WORK DESCRIPTION: My proposal is an audiovisual piece that is formed around identity. When first deciding my ideas for gallery 46 I felt uneasy about presenting my work inside of a white gallery space. I am used to playing DIY Rap shows and doing most of my artistic work within spaces I feel comfortable. I found myself questioning if my work would be accepted as typically rap/hip hop work coming from a working-class background presented in a gallery is not the norm amongst general galleries. I spent some time researching different art gallery pieces, such as the JAY-Z piece Picasso Baby performance in a gallery. Where he performs in front of a small personal crowd of people, with one by one people coming for a one to one performance. My piece is heavily inspired by artists such as Madlib with his Medicine Show series where he curates records and samples, as well as travelogues and uses bits of speech acquired from old tv shows and films to create a narrative and showcase an audio documentary of which country he is in collecting vinyl. I decided to present my work in a similar context.
To create a sample-based audio piece, Taking parts of my Brazilian heritage and my English upbringing as a teenager in a piece. I have related my identity to my sonic landscape and used Brazilian music, Tv Shows and films to create a sample collage of things I associate with my identity. I decided to use gallery 7 as it’s small and intimate, away from all the other rooms. This would allow for my piece to be potentially missed which is fine, I like the idea of having something hidden away on the top floor. I want to blackout the room as there is only one window so it should be easier than a larger room to do. The projector will be placed on the floor pointing up against the wall as shown in the diagram. Then four cone speakers are drilled into where the projector will be shown on the wall to create a distortion amongst the projection. I will have a mac mini hidden behind the small area between the window and the wall. Alongside two preamps to power the four speakers and keep the cables neat and tidy. I have chosen to use four cone speakers as I will be automating each speaker to play different parts. So it will be a quadrophonic piece but positioned in a different way than usual. Instead of two speakers in front and two from behind, they will be all on the wall where the projection is projected onto. I also chose these cone speakers as they would allow me to have the speakers within the projection square that is projected.
I have attached a short four-minute draft of the audio. The final version will be ten minutes long. Alongside a ten minute video of sample collaged visuals that will be looped on quicktime on the Mac Mini.
Another proposition I’d like to do alongside this is a performance of music I make as a rapper. I would like to perform some songs with a projector playing visuals i have designed, in gallery 5. In specific my latest album which is about identity and how we can lose ourselves amongst the music industry and our own ideas of who we want to be.