Eindhoven

2008

I came to Eindhoven to make a new work about walking. This film documents the walks I made during my short stay. Unlike sitting in a train, walking is an unstable but free activity, besides architectural constraints there are few limits. Attention can easily wander back to explore an interesting feature. Yet my trajectories seem familiar, as if I had walked these streets before (I haven’t). I never ran in some unexpected direction, discovering that special something. My walks are ruled by my subconscious habits interacting with the layout of the city.

Through the use of time remapping techniques, the instant “now” is unwrapped as it moves through space, visualizing drama as a trajectory rather than a series of events. Unlike my earlier time analysis portraits of landscape, Eindhoven is made from a pedestrian perspective. This film visualizes the instability of walking crossreferenced with cityscape on a macro scale, spatiotemporal information masquerading as painterly liquid panoramas. These are the first walks made by an uninformed visitor in a new city. Besides being a map of some streets “from the side”, the work raises a question: why these particular streets? I used a steadicam device which can be tuned to respond to the slightest body movements. As my attention wanders, the camera responds as a gentle double-take, which shows up as a doubling of content in the image.

As with my other landscape analysis projects, this work is designed to be exhibited in the vincinity of the portrayed location.

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