CINDERELLA II – THE DREAMER
Cinderella II – The Dreamer is a hybrid of drawing with interaction & performance, installation, video & sound. The project explores perceptions of home and the domestic space as a site of dreaming and habitation, where the imaginary and the real co-exist and how one informs the other. Cinderella II – The Dreamer belongs to my further investigation into consumerism, social difference and globalisation.
During the course of the creation process I was inviting friends and colleagues to collaborate in the project by sharing their desires of possessing certain material things with me. The goal was to 'materialize' these dreams, to make my friends’ desires come true, by converting them into installation objects.
Each one of the factual objects desired by my friends: one of Yhoji Yamamoto's outfits from Spring Collection 2007, a Rolls-Royce car model Phantom, a Bang & Olufsen sound system Beo formed bases for conceptual re-making into: a drawing installation, a sound-installation, a video animation, and a series of digital prints.
The drawing part of the Cinderella II – The Dreamer comprises of three drawing installations. Each object is built up with a number of drawn panels that make up stylised profiles of my friends’ desired things: the Yohji Yamamoto’s outfit became DESIRE1: YOHJI (199 panels), the luxury Rolls Royce Phantom became DESIRE2: PHANTOM (506 panels), the Bang & Olufsen theatre system Beo became DESIRE3: BEO (185 panels). Each of them has the shape of the simplified original product: like a pictogram, or symbol of the real item, reduced to its basic form, as a screen upon which desire is both projected and disrupted.
The panels (wallpaper on paperboard) are individually cut, mounted and drawn on, and then connected by additional lines to its adjacent panels. Panels have a multi-layer structure. They are covered with drawing, which is an outcome of actuality (the lines take shapes of objects I look at whilst drawing), and at the same time, they are containers of desires and conversations. The resultant drawing installation opens its inventory of meaning to repeated re-definition.
Sound and video installations within the Cinderella II - The Dreamer. Using musical notation I made a series of drawings which are inventories of the visual appearances of three real objects: a Rolls Royce car, a Bang & Olufsen’s sound system, a Yohji Yamamoto’s outfit. Configurations of different notes positioned on multiple musical staffs (using a code I developed), form original music scores, describing and translating in a most visually objective way possible, the appearance of the particular object. On the sound I collaborated with a composer Alistair Noble (PhD candidate, ANU) who translated my music scores into a digital sound and produced files for me to use as soundtracks for my videos and for burning on music CDs.
Gosia Wlodarczak 2008 |
