Why use video as a medium for The Frock in the Room when previous attempts at documenting work this way haven't worked for me? As an attempt to address this dilemma again I've been looking at video artists such as Tacita Dean, Shirin Nesrat and Bill Viola and I am beginning to see a way forward. I am now thinking of the videos as moving sketches created in an alternative darkroom. By using simple apps I may have found a route to seeing the work as a time based piece. Within the installation at home there are conflating narratives, which haven't developed as the work developed. I'm thinking here in terms of the many acts of processing as recollection that darkroom images go through, how each process is a different dialogue, a new 'seeing', a new act of remembering. Constructing the installation, throughout the making there was a dialogue, but it was a continuous one, a picking up where we left off dialogue between the work and me. Constructing the installation for the December show, part of the process was similar, but there were external dialogues happening too. Dialogues between the work, colleagues and myself. Covid has made that physical contact impossible for now. The videos are a work in progress. As layers of making, they are the past, the now and the what might have been, the everyday, the mundane and the absent. Maybe they are documenting in person moments, inviting further dialogue online, maybe I'm creating a new dilemma? But they are the sum of my time on the course. Should they be in my memory suitcase?
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