Wednesday, January 13, 2010




cello.
more video stills.

4 comments:

Rod! said...

Hey !

elizabeth, do you think you might be able to offer some explanation of these pieces? i'm really into what i see in the power plant post, but i'd love to know some more about your process/ method, and i agree with alex that some short clips would be pretty cool too....

so what's going on? i approve no matter what, just wanna know!

Elizabeth Cole Sonenberg said...

surely rod-- (and alex) [and whoever else-- hi!]

i will upload some clips- the footage is pretty shoddy though and doesn't give you a great sense of the environment.

power plant project was pulled together pretty last minute. i was thinking about how bodies could alter a space by becoming extensions of structural forms/ other aspects of an environment.

the high st. plant is a very enclosed and transported environment, that feels to me to have its own sense of locamotive time. There are certain elements there that I see as beggin for extension.

The whole place is pulsing. but there is no true movement. but the place beckons movement... i think.

I am not finished on this project yet, this was just a first attempt, but ideally the space will become like a wind up city, where bodies in the space make explicit the musicality/ weight/ precarious elements of the site.

and a lot of whimsy too.... which i am struggling with a bit. in terms of how much to allow...



i can give more details about what specific people are doing, but perhaps ill just upload videos soon and let them speak for themselves. its a shame that marks movement in the begging isnt visible on film.

he is doing the paint bucket movement that there is a clip of me doing in this post.

that was a just a small thing i was working on. done very slowly. very much about the material and how it is reconextualized...the transformative nature of "the glove."

the last thing with honey was from a series of small works i did using honey which included this video of my sister licking up slowly dripping "tears". its a joke. sort of.

happy to hear any feedback-- im still figuring a lot of stuff out.

thanks for the q's rod!!

xx
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celia said...

elizabeth i thought those were photos of you when you were younger

Elizabeth Cole Sonenberg said...

yea my eyes change color every five years.

miss ya