Get A Room
2012, Dec. 21st
What I did here was setting up 2 video cameras on each side of a bed to document interaction between a couple that lied down on the bed.
These 2 footages (of lover 1 & lover 2) are synchronized in my video installation “Get a Room”; both of them are played in slow motion without audio part.
The next step was figuring out where and how I want to show this installation. My new boyfriend Robert (at that time), who only tried to please his new girlfriend by helping her doing her project, later realized that his image would be projected on a building window.
Version 1,
on the building:
It’s a very site-specific installation, which located around Adams & Wabash CTA station. The station sits between two school buildings belonged to SAIC, they are called as Sullivan Building and Sharp building. Anyway, what I want to do here is project each video on one of each building’s windows across to each other, so the couple ‘s images could be face-to-face. In that case, the CTA trains could go through between the couple’s image, and the passengers in the cars would run into a enlarged private scene unexpectedly.
Version 2,
in the gallery:
This is easier to explain than the building version, instead of projecting two videos on the windows, they are projected on the walls in the gallery across to each other, in smaller scale. I also experiment with the shape of different interior space.
Version 3,
side by side:
The 2 videos are play side by side instead of across each other.
