26 Aug - 30 Sept 2019
Within our evolving shared practice, we bring in our interests and skills from each of our backgrounds (visual arts and architecture, respectively), to develop procedures of reflection and self-reflection, progressing both collectively and individually.
In search of an unfamiliar surrounding that gives us a ground for strategic exploration and wandering, we arrived at Nyon. We aimed to accomplish the production stage of our film project Morning Glory that we started back in 2017.
Morning Glory reworks the banal morning interval in-between a man waking up to leaving his dwelling. It focuses on the juxtaposition of the space of reverie and the spaces in which we live. The visual and semantic narrative traverses these spaces to break the dichotomy between the inner and outer landscape; to approach a place in relation to other places.
Our preconception :
Morning Glory overlays both the physical site – a room / Our studio – and its broader context – a city / Nyon – with the internal and external landscapes of the protagonist. The film uses objects, animated drawings, videos, texts and sounds, weaving them together with the morning rhythms of repetitive day-to-day activities.
Our first week was to cognitively and emotionally navigate the space to discover locations that challenge the interplay of power and place through their spatial and temporal boundaries.
In our physical shift from the studio to the dynamic network of other places around it, we found ourselves encountering forces already implicit in the surroundings, revealing dimensions too often hidden by our ideas of use/function, purpose, hierarchy, order and threshold.
With our camera and microphone, we have archived fragments, employing visuals, objects, videos, texts and sounds.
Our next step is to explore transpositions, cutting out, montaging, sticking and cataloguing as techniques that interrupt structures and orders and enable a fluid space without geography.
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