VERTICAL TIMES    

Project Description

Vertical Times is a video/sound installation that explores the simultaneity of internal and external times. The images are based on the Human Towers, a cultural activity typical of Catalonia (Spain). They follow the same structure of the towers: monitors on the bottom show the bottom part of the Human Towers (close image of hands and feeds), the central monitor show people placed on “the trunk” of the “castle”, and the top ones the children on the top of the human structure.

A sonic sensor measures the distance between the spectator and the column of monitors. If the spectator is placed 3 feet or less from the monitors, internal sounds of people making the Human Tower are heard (breathing, swallowing, counting…). As the spectator moves farther away, more external sounds are heard (leader and public screams, music, street atmosphere…).

The word “Vertical” (from the title) refers not only to the Human Tower shape, but also to the synchronic view of several time experiences happening at the same moment, from the bottom to the top and through all layers of the tower. Moreover, edited images play with different time speeds, as well as with repetition: metaphor of a constant creation/vanishing process.

Mireia Feliu-Fabra

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