| My newest art project is called Crash
Course. It examines our fear of the unpredictable and the unforeseen. This includes
the negative occurrences, such as accidents and blind violence. Crash Course will reconstruct actual incidents
and accidents from how they have been documented and filmed by the police from the police
cruisers (squad cars). This video material was intended as visual proof to be used as
evidence, but in the tradition of the American entertainment industry, this footage has
also been given to TV companies, provided to the TV viewer as entertainment with the added
aspect of it being "real." 3D-modeled scenes are reconstructed and drawn from
this documentary footage. Among the powerful possibilities of the 3D computer technology
is the ability to accurately copy the parameters of reality and emulate actual physical
properties (gravity, forces, collisions, etc.) By reconstructing these incidents in a very
neutral and unbiased way, Crash Course will examine how the visual imagery governs
how we perceive what really happened. This documentary imagery crosses the border between
reality and fiction. Though the material is documentary, it is also well known from
numerous Hollywood films.
Crash Course will also look at the
aspect of what occurs when one can’t control what happens anymore, and one becomes
victim of the surrounding actions. Another aspect of this project is the architectural
road constructions and the different levels of space that these roads and junctions
create. The roads and junctions also forms an intricate visual network, emulating in the
physical reality the image of the electronic networks.
There seem to be three different spaces;
one is the space on top of the road, here you are usually in a traveling position moving
at a speed. The other space is the space that connects to and surrounds the road systems.
In this space you might live or work. The third space is the non-space, which exists under
the roads and junctions, a leftover space where you aren’t intended to be, and if you
live here, you are outside society and space anyway.
Music and soundtrack for Crash Course is
produced and composed by Erik Wøllo. |
