MIXED MEDIA EXPERIMENT
CONTENT
The assignment examines how spatiality can be created or evoked from a self-chosen starting point. This starting point can be a medium, a material, a technique, a principle, a theme, but also a substantive or formal field. The research consists of a series of experiments. These experiments explore how the chosen theme can create, call or organize a space.
Each experiment, which is controlled by a protocol, is recorded in a visual and spatial report. A logbook will show the research as a tool to sharpen the protocol.
The results are presented as autonomous work.
OUR EXPERIMENTS Team member Leonie Van Bellingen
We started the experiments with two materials as starting point: tape and plastic. These two materials formed our protocol and a thread through the research.
We simply started testing the tape and the plastic by applying forces to it, in relation to our body. The experiments resulted in a number of experiences that were both tactile – the texture of the material – and intangible – the space between strength and material – . We further investigated this phenomenon by extending the limits of the space in the experiments.
We tried to orchestrate the experiences in space.
“Or was it the atmosphere? An atmosphere that emerged when we looked at a working force, the atmosphere of the interspace or the atmosphere of the tangible and intangible.”
In order to communicate the experiments, we used the medium photography. Each experiment was photographed and printed in series or shown as moving image (GIF). A selection of these weekly series were collected in boxes that formed the logbook.