Feeling the B Street
Video with sound, 8'08", 2008
The orgina of this piece has to do with my concern about the relationship between performance and video. In this piece the video camera is part of the performance as an extension of the performing body. The resulting video piece functions also as an organic record of the performance.
The video tries to convey a drastically different experience of a familiar, if not mundane, city street. I walked down the B Street in downtown San Mateo with my camera as an extension of my visual, auditory and tactile functions. The camera’s lens hood actually touched the objects that I was exploring, generating highly exaggerated images through extreme close ups, along with corresponding sounds that reflect the texture of the surfaces the lens hood was contacting. It produces an otherworldly effect of walking down an ordinary street, not unlike through the vantage point of a different creature. Or perhaps an experience of a flaneur in our technology dominated time? ’.
Video duration 8'08", with sound.