Tina,
How does this work,
"if they move too much I start to cry.."
do you perform a cry, are you live or onscreen in the video?
Did you film this in advance under hypnosis, and then associate the
clips in an interactive interface so that the audience movements when
they reach certain limits, trigger crying clips?
On Jul 13, 2006, at 7:20 AM, Tina Gonsalves wrote:
I feel exposed especially today. I am working on an interactive piece
that looks at mirroring and empathy. I spent yesterday with the
director of the clinical hypnosis unit who works a lot with the
neuroscientists ( I am currently artist in resident at the Institute
of Neuroscience, UCL). We have been working on a few projects
together. I needed to start working on the sound of a responsive
video piece that is about mimicry. It is quite personal. Basically, a
video of my facial expressions mimic the movement of the audience,
but if they move too much I start to cry, and through movement they
have to work out how to calm me. Anyway, I needed sound, and I am
very much interested in capturing authentic emotions, those that are
stripped back from social conditioning. So he hypnotized me into
these various emotional states. We recorded it all. I was nervous at
the release of self control, and didn’t think I would be
hypnotizable. But for over an hour, I felt these visceral strong
emotions of different events in my life.. Today I am exhausted, and
feel raw. Yesterday I found myself reliving events that I haven’t
thought about for years. Strange, deep. I haven’t been able to look
at the tape we recorded. Today it seems hard to pull it into my work.
How do I now edit this? How will I fight the self censorship? but
maybe I will feel different about it in a few days.
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