week
3 15.05.2003
Raphael
DiLuzio
seasonal fungue
disorder
Seasonal Fugue Disorder deals with an individual’s
relation to Nature as a system that embodies both chaos and order.
This work is meant to explore our physiological, emotional and psychological
connection to the flux of the seasons. It examines the individual’s
relation, awareness and attention to time and place. The work raises
questions of our need to foist order upon the spontaneous and chaotic
structure of Nature by representing it as a system “ordered”
by chaos. A DV camera has been set in a secure location in a forest
in Maine. This camera is linked to a computer and the Internet and
thus may be remotely controlled. Throughout the ensuing four seasons,it
is documenting each day of the week from
sunrise to sunset (at a timelapse rate of approximately 1.5 minutes
per day). This will result in each season being represented by a two
and three quarter hour video. For not-TV, the days will be streamed
continually throughout the year and satellite and other weather information
will be accessible. The final piece will result in a installation
of the four seasonal movies complete with montages of satellite weather
information form corresponding days and sounds particular to the season.
The first installation will be in Rockport Maine, with subsequent
venues to be established. A description of the installation follows:
Seasonal Fugue Disorder will be set in a darkened
four-walled space. There will be an entrance to the space set near
a corner. Up to thirty-two viewers at a time can enter the space and
view the work. Each viewer will be given a set of
headphones, small battery pack and a remote radio frequency device.
In the space the viewers will see movies on each wall depicting the
four seasons (see description following). When a viewer stands in
front of a particular image their presence will be “sensed”
and they will hear one of four poems recited about a
season, although not the season they are watching. Additionally, they
will hear sounds that are congruent with a given poems particular
season, for example: rain in the spring etc. There will also be an
on going faint dialogue with each season of a couple discussing their
positive and negative reactions to each season. As the viewer moves
from wall to wall, and therefore from sensory zone to sensory zone,
their headset will “pickup” the particular poem that is
playing in front of a wall at that time. If they were to stand in
front of one wall after five minutes the seasonal movie would change
along with the poem.
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