USE - LESS P.6
Darius Dias _ 7612833 EVDS 2500/2900 Colin Herperger & Marc Mainville University of Manitoba, 2010/2011
THE BRIEF.
Use. | yoōz | take, hold, or deploy (something) as a means of accomplishing a purpose or achieving a result; employ
Less. | les | a smaller amount of; not as much. All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless!
Burton Watson, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu. (New York : Columbia University Press, 1968), 67
How can we gaze beyond our utilitarian preoccupations? What are the ‘use’ and ‘useless’ dimensions in our daily living? How (and when) do we ‘practice’ the use and the useless? How can we reflect/discuss such practices? How can we re-frame our reality, through the lens of camera? What opportunities and conditions (dimensions and territories) emerge in such re-engagements/re-framings? Can we intertwine the framer with the framed; the fiction with the reality; the use with the useless?
INSPIRATION.
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The sounds and energies of an ‘empty’ room, or ‘empty’ use-less moment. Inspired by the audible energies heard in a vacant space, we sought to accompany them with subdued and protracted visuals.
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THE FILM.
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BEHIND THE SCENES.
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CONCLUSION.
The Use and Useless were investigated through the study of space cinematically; a space continued to ‘live’ onscreen despite perceivable ‘life’ because of the residual and infiltrating energies. When the Use is not present, or not perceivable, what is left? This Useless quality is given prominence and worth, reestablishing the Use where before, to the casual gaze, there was nothing.
Graphite on Butterboard. Intentional erasing of rubbings, leaves a residual energy/image.