Apr 24th, 2008
Video kids get into the groove
immediately fuse that with found footage.
Layering the live projection with the raw footage on screen, the video duo uses a mixer to key in, fade, burn out and otherwise affect the video, partly as eye candy and partly as an illustrated exchange of ideas.
It’s an ethic borrowed from DJ land, which benefits from stock and gathered footage, plus the wide swath of reference that the Internet brings. While DJs find audible beats, Watson and Elie are looking for a kind of visual rhythm.
At Lila you’ll see classic Bollywood films, stills from the movie Baraka, footage of Horra’s mother wrapping a sari and anything from their bank.
When not working at their respective day jobs (high school art educator and graphic designer), Elie and Watson bounce around the city, filming the bridges to Quebec from a moving car, or documenting the goings-on of an hour at the graffiti wall at the old Technical High School to use in their projections.
You would have seen work by the University of Ottawa grads at the National Gallery Artsparks event, at Tungda Browne shows (Elie is the band’s guitarist) or through Artengine events such as the Public Art Conspiracy in 2005, which saw images projected onto the exterior walls of York Street in the ByWard Market.
For their clubbier events, they have to react on a dime to the room’s sound and mood. Crowd connection is a huge motivator. Asked how they know that they’ve hit their stride, Watson and Elie wax wild about real-time interpretations and “resonance.”
Horra calls it live art: “You can bring the present moment into your footage — so you get that feeling. You know what you’re seeing is what is happening right now.” Filmed, projected, transmuted and translated, your club experience will be part Truman Show and part tricked-out surveillance, making it strangely compelling and just a bit trippy. VCR’t plays at the multi-media art event Lila, taking place tomorrow and
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14 Responses to “Video kids get into the groove”
Financial and political. I’ve said it before, and I know it sounds far fetched but it’s true. When a kid has a kid, the odds that both they and their child will have to join the military for a reliable income and health benefits greatly increases…
Don’t let me cashew making another awful pun!
Of course, correlation does not equal causation. It might just be that those kinds of people are more interested in using cannabis.
I’ve watched this several times, Matinée is amazing.
A good example of someone getting their foot caught in a rope and smacking into a cliff.
That’s good. Get them away from all the fake violence and teach them how to use a real weapon. Seems like a sound plan to me.
It’s gotta be a joke.
And when he is done dancing, Snowball gets put back in the cage. Sad. These people probably think they love their birds but there is no such thing as a “cage bird”. Birds in cages is another example of humans blindness to the suffering of others.
That’s nuts
Look, everyone on reddit is going to have a much easier time if we all stop pretending Fox is anything but a propaganda channel. I mean, would “Fundamentalist Right-wing Talk Show speaks out against sex education” really make any headlines?
Two kids, one cup.
A real shame that such behavior takes place within the hallowed halls of macadamia.
Brownies anyone?