SKCOLIDLOG and Other Inversions
2015 | 4 channel video installation | 32’00
The expanded 4-screen version of Housewarming (titled Skcolidlog and Other Inversions) is a linear film, that unfolds not only in time but also in space.
The 4 screens form a semi-circular shape, a sort of « visual choir », and the editing is based on the principal structure and modes of iso-polyphonic singing: a main solo (1 screen playing), a second solo (2 screens playing in dialectics) and the choir (4 screens playing, adding visual volume and layers).
A designated sound channel is attached to each screen and all video and sound channels are synchronised around one story line, with a beginning and an end.
Not all screens are playing simultaneously at all times, and the spectator is guided by the timed editing and the distribution of sound in space.
It is a theatrical experience, between film and performance, it engages the space, both the actual and the represented one, as well as the viewer who becomes an element in the constellation, while it also enhances the theatrical character of the work by transposing the plot from the screen surface to the stage- like space.
Installation view at Herzliya musem, september 2015
Stills from video
3D simulation of the installation in space, an excerpt (1'25)