Yvonne Rainer
http://www.ubu.com/film/rainer_hand-movie.html
Found this on UBUweb. Really interesting stuff with Ms. Rainer. The clip is from 1966 and I think it is really amazing how she was able to create some film of her work that demonstrates such clear spatial depth. Initially I got the feeling that her hand was moving on top of a flat white surface. Only when she flips her hand do we see that her hand is actually free in space.
The clarity of the gesture is also really noteworthy. I am currently working on a project where I am employing gesture and sign language to create and explore an entire movement language. This piece will actually be quite valuable in writing my senior thesis, as it demonstrates a specificity that is characteristic of a language, except it is no longer verbal, but tactile.
This clip shows the idea of a movement language, but I think that it goes even further to the point where Rainer's fingers seem like individual people in a set space. There are some random media effects that occur in the middle and give the viewer a sense of a passage of time for these "finger people."
Hopefully everyone in my class who is reading this and watched the video does not think that I am completely out of my mind, but I think the video is really interesting. The fact that this earlier media dance if affecting my dance making process shows that to a certain extent, nothing is really ever "new;" it is either rediscovered, reinvented, or reconsidered.
Also, I tried uploading my soundscore to freesound and I got it uploaded (I think). I made all of the tags and then it said that my upload had to go through a "moderation" stage. I have yet to find in the freesound search under any of my tags. Any solutions? Something I am missing?
Josh
Found this on UBUweb. Really interesting stuff with Ms. Rainer. The clip is from 1966 and I think it is really amazing how she was able to create some film of her work that demonstrates such clear spatial depth. Initially I got the feeling that her hand was moving on top of a flat white surface. Only when she flips her hand do we see that her hand is actually free in space.
The clarity of the gesture is also really noteworthy. I am currently working on a project where I am employing gesture and sign language to create and explore an entire movement language. This piece will actually be quite valuable in writing my senior thesis, as it demonstrates a specificity that is characteristic of a language, except it is no longer verbal, but tactile.
This clip shows the idea of a movement language, but I think that it goes even further to the point where Rainer's fingers seem like individual people in a set space. There are some random media effects that occur in the middle and give the viewer a sense of a passage of time for these "finger people."
Hopefully everyone in my class who is reading this and watched the video does not think that I am completely out of my mind, but I think the video is really interesting. The fact that this earlier media dance if affecting my dance making process shows that to a certain extent, nothing is really ever "new;" it is either rediscovered, reinvented, or reconsidered.
Also, I tried uploading my soundscore to freesound and I got it uploaded (I think). I made all of the tags and then it said that my upload had to go through a "moderation" stage. I have yet to find in the freesound search under any of my tags. Any solutions? Something I am missing?
Josh
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