George Saxon in residence at C&CRS 2002
An extract from George's description of his residency during the Summer of 2002 (taken from: Candy, L. and Edmonds, E., The COSTART Exhibition at C&C2002. in Creativity & Cognition 2002. Loughborough, UK, 2002. LUSAD Publications, p11-22.)
For the COSTART residency I wanted to develop work which has the potential to integrate both “live” and pre-recorded material. I envisaged the development of a new projection work which might explore some of my previous concerns such as the body, site and scale. My work evolves from responses to a given site or place whether architectural, contextual or situational. It evolves through the process of investigation and research. It may be a theme or the body in relation to the environment at a given moment in time. The choice of subject matter is dependent on my responses to a given situation at the time. In this sense the work is speculative and playful as I consider/reconsider the flow of experiences and encounters with places, situations and people. Generally the media and material used are digital video/audio which is usually video projected or fed to monitors. The aim is to “intervene” and re-present the familiar and, hopefully to provoke and/or surprise as well as challenge expectations. My background as an experimental film/video artist who has worked broadly with “expanded” notions of cinema has always been to exceed and challenge the conventional boundaries of the “classical film” system. The challenge arises when I look around for inspiration - for a clue into what it is I am searching for. This is unknown, sometimes grasping and difficult, often fraught with uncertainties. But I can only at the time materialize my vision through means which are available to me. Previous work with expanded video projections operated on spectator/spectacle relationships, together with the production conventions and display known at the time. This led me to re-thinking some of my work especially for COSTART residency and the collaboration involved.
For the COSTART residency I wanted to develop work which has the potential to integrate both “live” and pre-recorded material. I envisaged the development of a new projection work which might explore some of my previous concerns such as the body, site and scale. My work evolves from responses to a given site or place whether architectural, contextual or situational. It evolves through the process of investigation and research. It may be a theme or the body in relation to the environment at a given moment in time. The choice of subject matter is dependent on my responses to a given situation at the time. In this sense the work is speculative and playful as I consider/reconsider the flow of experiences and encounters with places, situations and people. Generally the media and material used are digital video/audio which is usually video projected or fed to monitors. The aim is to “intervene” and re-present the familiar and, hopefully to provoke and/or surprise as well as challenge expectations. My background as an experimental film/video artist who has worked broadly with “expanded” notions of cinema has always been to exceed and challenge the conventional boundaries of the “classical film” system. The challenge arises when I look around for inspiration - for a clue into what it is I am searching for. This is unknown, sometimes grasping and difficult, often fraught with uncertainties. But I can only at the time materialize my vision through means which are available to me. Previous work with expanded video projections operated on spectator/spectacle relationships, together with the production conventions and display known at the time. This led me to re-thinking some of my work especially for COSTART residency and the collaboration involved.
