Procession

a video installation for six monitors
and six video sources

 

In communal celebrations, such as parades, the event creates a new space. A city becomes a fantastic version of itself; a new creature that erupts in the streets and then disappears. In Procession, awareness is given a richly dimensional vantage point on this phenomenon. The paradeÕs flow is intensely modulated by editing, folded into itself again and again. Waves of transformation surge through a fabric of infinitely recurring moments, until the river of time swells and floods its banks.

Six monitors are placed five feet apart, in a row. Segments of a parade cycle on each screen. The flow of images and sounds is intensely modulated by editing; folded into itself again and again. Waves of transformation surge through the installation. The line of monitors, each with its local time, becomes a storyboard of infinite recurrences; a standing pattern in space-time that viewers can actually move around in. For six monitors and six video sources.

Stereo. 2000

 

Direction, production and primary postproduction by Van McElwee on all works.