Tech week - Day 1

The first day of the tech week was spent with Genine and Blair working through options for presenting Gesture 7: the silent interviews.

These interviews are presented in The Block on three projection stations, with the projection surface three six-metre drops of staggered and layered polysheen each. The fabric moves and sways gently, providing fluidity to what might ordinarily be a static flat surface.  The refractive qualities of the polysheen provide a constantly shifting punctuation of the fourth and seventh terms of the Newtonian colour spectrum: green and violet and - in concert with the moving fabric - give rise to something akin to a water-memory only half-remembered.

I took a few images in the space and have posted some here. The faces of interview subjects Ray and Krystal are around five metres high…