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| SUITE FOR M. DOMESTICA Video/Audio installation, 2006 Suite for M. Domestica is a two channel video installation. Two acrylic spheres on built stands, display two videos simultaneously. There is an audio component by Polmo Polpo that is triggered by the motion of the approaching viewer. The video loops on two DVD players at different lengths so you never see the same two images simultaneously for a long time. I am sure there is a mathematical way to figure out how long it takes for the videos to meet back at their beginnings but I am not inclined to find out. This suite is a fictional media system for an anthropomorphic housefly (M. Domestica). It could also be for regular sized flies as well, as the wide field of vision afforded by the spherical viewing screens lends itself to flying around the room. The two movies are contrasting in the way they both annihilate time; the video on the right side is shot with a very high shutter speed; 1/15000 of a second, it captures various species of flying insects as stills against a porch light bulb. The light bulb is a piece of technology that confuses the flying insects who use the moon as a navigational aid. The next video is a time-lapse video of a lunar eclipse. The side-by-side videos are self-referential, the light bulb mimics the moon, the spherical video is a virtual light bulb, they are surrogates for navigation, but this is meant as drama for M. Domestica. Just as film annihilated time and memory for us in its infancy, the high shutter speed gives us a view of the flies life as they live in an accelerated sense of time. |
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