FOR BRAVADO PART1 (Video, running time 4 min 53 secs) JANUARY 2015
Re-appropriated karaoke
PART 1 takes the form of a karaoke video being played back through a combined DVD/TV unit with two live microphones situated in front. The following video is a documentation of the playback as a test for the actual installation.
The karaoke video uses the words from a news clipping from 1996 of the story of the finding of the body of a man named Terence Bull in Huddersfield. This event is linked to me personally as I was the first person to come across Mr Bull's body. Therefore the event and the surrounding experiences lend themselves perfectly to creating a phenomenological performance.
"The respect for subjective experience at the heart of any phenomenology does not sever one from others but can actually form a conduit to the other".
Kozel, S. Closer, MIT:2007.
I chose to relay the factual information surrounding the event through the karaoke format in order to create a new, almost jarring, dialogue between the karaoke and the news-story format. I want to create a situation where the participant cannot fall back on pre-conceived notions for what they perceive before them and use this novel scenario to heighten self-awareness.
“The problematic nature of these novel gestures tends to provoke explicit body awareness” Leder, D. The Absent Body, The University of Chicago Press: 1990.