Kirsty Beilharz in residence at C&CRS 2002
An extract from Kirsty's description of her work 'Floriferous' (taken from: Candy, L. and Edmonds, E., The COSTART Exhibition at C&C2002. in Creativity & Cognition 2002. Loughborough, UK, 2002. LUSAD Publications, p11-22.)
The multimedia composition, Floriferous, is an assemblage of recorded piano music from Floriferous Rage (2000), a piece that explores issues that challenge the traditional functions of a passive multimedia experience. This composition is concerned with pacing of images and tempo of movement, framing and perception, and aims to project the listener/viewer into the brain-space of artist voyeur, experiencing contradiction, inner turmoil and conflict. The role of music in TV, cinema and most multimedia is subordinate and incidental, whereas here, that position is reversed, or at least, questioned. Expectations, in terms of colour perception, juxtaposition, sequence, logical progression, tempo and 'niceness' are challenged. The subject matter is a homage to the artist, Derek Jarman (1942 - 1994): painter, film-maker, writer, designer. Jarman worked in a bewildering variety of media. In a flow of consciousness, expressed in the textual elements of the multimedia, the listener/viewer is invited into his world. Jarman explored gardens, their many incarnations, holding obvious musical potential for allusion and metaphor, interpolated through the piano. Floriferous explores musical gardens and, in doing so, occupies a musical world rich in diverse and varied gardens.
The multimedia composition, Floriferous, is an assemblage of recorded piano music from Floriferous Rage (2000), a piece that explores issues that challenge the traditional functions of a passive multimedia experience. This composition is concerned with pacing of images and tempo of movement, framing and perception, and aims to project the listener/viewer into the brain-space of artist voyeur, experiencing contradiction, inner turmoil and conflict. The role of music in TV, cinema and most multimedia is subordinate and incidental, whereas here, that position is reversed, or at least, questioned. Expectations, in terms of colour perception, juxtaposition, sequence, logical progression, tempo and 'niceness' are challenged. The subject matter is a homage to the artist, Derek Jarman (1942 - 1994): painter, film-maker, writer, designer. Jarman worked in a bewildering variety of media. In a flow of consciousness, expressed in the textual elements of the multimedia, the listener/viewer is invited into his world. Jarman explored gardens, their many incarnations, holding obvious musical potential for allusion and metaphor, interpolated through the piano. Floriferous explores musical gardens and, in doing so, occupies a musical world rich in diverse and varied gardens.
