GIVE ME A SEC

2019
Experimental performance
Projection display, stereo sound,
Clear cylinder vessel, water, rotate table,
Max MSP, GyrOSC, faceOSC
Duration: 3min 20sec

bingComputing @ 2019

A seagull wanders by a lake, thinking to take off in the next second but it hesitates.

Live Performance
Goldsmiths St James Hatcham, 28th March 2019

Technical Instructions

Live performance
SET Dalston, East London, April 2019

Researches & process documentations
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The performance describes a daily panic in the flow of time caused by the paradox between our internal and external self.

With a rhythmic repetitive chant of a list of phrases descriptive of states of individuals pondering before taking actions with an awareness of the flowing time, a video shows a seagull facing a lake, hesitating to fly away. And in the next scene, the seagull stands in the middle of the lake, although there’re other birds swimming/flying around, it still stops there. Suddenly its reflection in the lake flies away, leaving the still entity there. Then after a while, the seagull entity disappears in the middle of the lake.

The flowing lake is a representation of time. The states of the seagull and its reflection represent the paradox between our external and internal beings. Sounds are live-manipulated by the performer’s mouth and a rotating clear vessel with water in it. The mouth responds to the state of ‘speaking with hesitation’ and the spinning water responds to a flowing time.

The videos and sound environments are coded and amplified in Max, while receiving messages from an openFramework faceOSC and a phone GyrOSC.

Created during my MA at Goldsmiths - Special Topics In Programming for Performance and Installation (Run by Atau Tanaka)

Acknowledgements