Proposal for Annex Gallery
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
A video installation presenting a collective experience of Lake Winnebago, involving three main elements:
PROJECTION
Two ceiling mounted video projectors would play loops of video taken of, at or near Lake Winnebago by various people. The video would highlight visual textures offered by the lake over time and from a variety of perspectives that would be edited into a seemless kalidoscopic visual experience.
REFLECTION
Two floor mounted projection/reflection screens would simultaneously capture and reflect the projected video loops, holding on to some of the imagery on the floor of the gallery and boucing some of it off the walls, ceiling and visitors who enter the space. The screens combine mirrored and non-mirrored mylar in the shape of Lake Winnebago as seen from above, like on a map or from space, creating a floating perspective inside a linmal space
HORIZON
A single contiuous line would run the entire gallery at eye level, referencing the horizon as a dominante visual experience of being on the lake. The line would be composed of reflective mylar or cut paper. On closer inspection, it would reveal photo references from a variety of different sources, including historical photos and photos sourced from local residents, presented as inverted silhouettes that merge into the horizon line .
Two ceiling mounted video projectors would play loops of video taken of, at or near Lake Winnebago by various people. The video would highlight visual textures offered by the lake over time and from a variety of perspectives that would be edited into a seemless kalidoscopic visual experience.
REFLECTION
Two floor mounted projection/reflection screens would simultaneously capture and reflect the projected video loops, holding on to some of the imagery on the floor of the gallery and boucing some of it off the walls, ceiling and visitors who enter the space. The screens combine mirrored and non-mirrored mylar in the shape of Lake Winnebago as seen from above, like on a map or from space, creating a floating perspective inside a linmal space
HORIZON
A single contiuous line would run the entire gallery at eye level, referencing the horizon as a dominante visual experience of being on the lake. The line would be composed of reflective mylar or cut paper. On closer inspection, it would reveal photo references from a variety of different sources, including historical photos and photos sourced from local residents, presented as inverted silhouettes that merge into the horizon line .
PROPOSED FLOOR PLAN AND ELEVATION
showing placement of projectors, screens and horizon line inside annex gallery
showing placement of projectors, screens and horizon line inside annex gallery
SOURCING IMAGERY FOR THE INSTALLATION
The video and photo documents to be used for the video loops and photo references could be locally sourced by UW Oshkosh students, possibly in coorperation with interested art, photo or environmental groups on campus. These possibilities would push the installation toward a more collective and collaborative experience and would likely require some additional help and resouces from the University faculty and/or students to make them sucessful. Suggestions on how to make these connections would be welcome.
POSSIBLE INSTALLATION DATES
The sucess of the installation as a collective experience would require a certain time of collaborative image gathering: the more collaboration involved, the more time required. In an academic year, the collaborative gathering of material might take place over a semester, with the installation showing the following semester. On possibility might be image gathering in the spring and summer of 2022 and the exhibiting in the fall of 2022. Another possibility might be sourcing the imagery in the summer and fall of 2022, then installating the work in the spring of 2023. This process could be trucated into a semester, with the image gathering happening over a few weeks at the beginning of the semester and the exhibition happening toward the end of the semester. Outside of the semester framework, the project could sucessfully be done with several weeks of collaborative image sourcing followed by several months of preparation and serveral days to a week of in-gallery installation.
HOW THIS RELATES TO MY ARTISTIC PRACTICE
I want my work to make connections between small, everyday events and larger accumulations of matter, space and time. I see Lake Winnebago as a natural accumulation of more than just water, but also an accumulation of expereices, of flora and fauna and biomatter, of ice and wind and boats, of colliding histories, cultures and geological epochs. By gathering photos and videos captured by people who live, work and study around this body of water, I want tie together the experieces behind them and to give them a place to interact and bounce off each other. The proposed installation at the Annex gallery would create the potential for a single kalidescopic experience imbued with the textures, layers and histories of this place that could help us better appereciate and take care of it.
The video and photo documents to be used for the video loops and photo references could be locally sourced by UW Oshkosh students, possibly in coorperation with interested art, photo or environmental groups on campus. These possibilities would push the installation toward a more collective and collaborative experience and would likely require some additional help and resouces from the University faculty and/or students to make them sucessful. Suggestions on how to make these connections would be welcome.
POSSIBLE INSTALLATION DATES
The sucess of the installation as a collective experience would require a certain time of collaborative image gathering: the more collaboration involved, the more time required. In an academic year, the collaborative gathering of material might take place over a semester, with the installation showing the following semester. On possibility might be image gathering in the spring and summer of 2022 and the exhibiting in the fall of 2022. Another possibility might be sourcing the imagery in the summer and fall of 2022, then installating the work in the spring of 2023. This process could be trucated into a semester, with the image gathering happening over a few weeks at the beginning of the semester and the exhibition happening toward the end of the semester. Outside of the semester framework, the project could sucessfully be done with several weeks of collaborative image sourcing followed by several months of preparation and serveral days to a week of in-gallery installation.
HOW THIS RELATES TO MY ARTISTIC PRACTICE
I want my work to make connections between small, everyday events and larger accumulations of matter, space and time. I see Lake Winnebago as a natural accumulation of more than just water, but also an accumulation of expereices, of flora and fauna and biomatter, of ice and wind and boats, of colliding histories, cultures and geological epochs. By gathering photos and videos captured by people who live, work and study around this body of water, I want tie together the experieces behind them and to give them a place to interact and bounce off each other. The proposed installation at the Annex gallery would create the potential for a single kalidescopic experience imbued with the textures, layers and histories of this place that could help us better appereciate and take care of it.
VIEWS OF PROPOSED VIDEO PROJECTION, SCREENS, REFLECTIONS AND HORIZON LINE
from a model showing the two projection/reflection screens and their likely reflected effects in a similar space.
from a model showing the two projection/reflection screens and their likely reflected effects in a similar space.