portal; is part of an ongoing exploration of the role of affect in public space, and another arboreal projection.
When looking at projection work, people have no real vocabulary for the experience – usually they simply say “that’s so cool….”.
In many ways, projection is purely post cinematic – in that it makes a nod to the devices of cinema without what Baudry would call the specific apparatus of cinema. Am ambulatory audience can modulate their relationship to public projection – from the low threshold of holding up a cellphone to recapture the image to approaching a work from different vantage points or watching it in a nonlinear manner as an active viewer – projection can often be a quasi social activity, allowing audiences to actively describe or critique the experience of watching as it happens.
portal is an attempt to create a work that is not able to be clearly articulated, whose effect is highly site specific (hence the close interaction with the depth effect of trees) and which is felt as opposed to described. Pure affect – the sense of feeling in time, works contrary to “meaning” in that the affective experience for the participant cannot be reduced to a semiotic reading. portal; is an attempt to create a work that lives in the particular space without relying on previous experiences of projected work, to push towards the [projected] image degree zero – not relying by reference to the memory of cinematic, or even architectural projection.