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 The revolutionary availability of audio-visual material on the internet (U-Tube etc) and the extensive possibilities to search through it with the help of keywords, are the starting points for this new project. Bogers: “Meanwhile I have started to build up my own collection, letting myself be ruled by the search systems of the involved websites: introduced keywords not only bring up direct results, but also offers alternatives which are content-related. This way the searcher  comes from one thing to another, in an endless series of unsuspected subjects. On each specific topic I try to gather at least 36 video’s. The plan is to  extend the collection and to gradually put up all the material  in one spatial audiovisual installation”.

Roughly this installation will look as follows:
On a long wall three video projectors show a total of 36 content-related internet films at the same time. The used keywords are written inside each image. Time and again the subjects will change.
Every image has its own audio-channel which is performed by a little loudspeaker hanging free in space. All 36 loudspeakers are hanging 2 meters above the floor, pointing straight down (see floor map). According to his position in the space, the viewer can make different choices in the way he perceives the work.

Concept: “Keywords”   (title update:"Unleashed Content")              Update 05-2010
Introduction   

Concept- VIDEO 03-2010
Concept- VIDEO 01-2010 (another experiment-another work??)
Concept- VIDEO  09-2009

Extensive Concept with floorplans (downloadable pdf file)

March 2009 Peter Bogers has received a grant from the Fonds BKVB / Netherlands Foundation for visual arts, design and architecture to realise an audiovisual work (provisional title: ‘Body & Mind 70% H2O’) of which the audio part will be on the edge of ‘sound’ and ‘music’. The spatial composition will be based on electronic sounds. The work will be released around August 2010.

Have a look at a VIDEO (click here) which has been the source of inspiration for the project but, as such, will not be used in the work. (recorded by Peter Bogers in a sauna 10-2008)

This has lead to the following set-up:
Two naked human bodies (male-female) will be projected on the ceiling of a room. (See drawing). The poses of these bodies will be more or less classical (no genitals) and completely static (photographical) Nothing moves except drops of water rolling off the bodies and finally dripping down.
Right underneath the points where the water drips off, benches are placed. Each bench has a built inn loudspeaker. The audience can lay down on the benches.

Every falling drop triggers an electronic sound or has a traceable influence on the electronic soundscape.

 

 

Concept: “Body & Mind 70% H20”                           Update 01-2010
Introduction   

possible pose

Discovering a hidden, obscure film can be attractive and exiting because of the supposed unique character of it. Once only, and just because of that, special. Internet opens up these hidden places and thus more or less weakens or demystifies the former unparalleled experience. On the other hand, maybe internet just changes the náture of the mystery: The astonishment of the discovery that something exotic exists, shifts to the amazement that something unexpected is not unique, that it exists in such large numbers. Formerly invisible threads that connect us, suddenly show up through the search machines on the internet.

This work is constructed out of personal and sometimes private content, but nevertheless confronts us with the mass production of such audiovisual material. The experience of a massive presence of individuality can trigger feelings of definite beauty as well as tragedy.