“Visuals”, 2022
presented by Claire Meekel & Abi Meekel
“Visuals” was originally created for a radio show based in Den Haag. Our visuals were on a loop in 1 hour intervals and used as a backdrop while the DJ’s played. These visuals contain recordings of ordinary, repetitive moments that belong to our every day lives. The video is a collection of our own footage that we’ve montaged together. The film can fit together with any sound.
"Visuals" was exhibited at Future Intel, Den Haag
In Warmoessstraat, Amsterdam at a film screening and
at De Uit Kijk Film Theatre, Amsterdam, for the WC exhibition
video link to Film: https://vimeo.com/755557421/babf4fcc16
Images of the Exhibition link: https://files.cargocollective.com/c857322/Uitkijk-Exbitbition.pdf
MONUMENT, 2019
presented by Riley Pam-Grant, Claire Meekel & Abi Meekel
“Monument” is a video, sound and light installation consisting of projected visuals distorted through a tube, transmitting a clear, circular projection onto its adjacent wall. The auditory experience contrasts and layers the obscurity of the visuals by adding a narrative element through field recorded soundscapes. On the floor, beneath the tube lies a small futon-style, single bed on which the audience is encouraged to lie. This format of a video installation challenges the conventions of viewing film. It highlights its physicality through the presence of the objectified tube that exists in the middle of the space. The bed allows for a more personal point of engagement within a public realm wherein the public also views the person viewing, who becomes part of what is being viewed. This speaks to the relationship between public and personal spaces and how one digests transmitted information publicly and privately.
It is in fact the things we find too obvious to talk about and observe, that may give us immense insight into issues of our space and culture, seeing as it’s the routines which seem the most obvious, that we actually understand the most on a deep and unconscious level. “Monument” attempts to bring the unconscious and obvious to the surface through the seemingly alien form of the abstracted visuals in the tube, making the viewer second-guess the obviousness of their naturalised surroundings.
The Blue Exhibition, 2019
presented by Riley Pam-Grant, Claire Meekel & Abi Meekel
The Blue Exhibition is a sound, light and video installation which explores semiotics, visual and sonic codes of public communication and engagements in relation to the context it exists in: Johannesburg, South Africa. In exploring signs and symbols and the value of images and sound, the Blue Exhibition attempts to disrupt the contemporary hierarchy of meaning by exploring a new or alternative set of meanings through sound and visuals. This speaks to the idea of an unfixed and ever evolving meaning in images and the volatile nature of representation and the role technology plays in the re-presentation and reproduction of images, meaning and value. Blue is not the concept but an accessible entry point into exploring the conversation about language and our relationships to visual and sonic codes. It is a simple way of talking about associations, what they mean to us and how they may change.
presented by Riley Pam-Grant, Claire Meekel & Abi Meekel
The Blue Exhibition is a sound, light and video installation which explores semiotics, visual and sonic codes of public communication and engagements in relation to the context it exists in: Johannesburg, South Africa. In exploring signs and symbols and the value of images and sound, the Blue Exhibition attempts to disrupt the contemporary hierarchy of meaning by exploring a new or alternative set of meanings through sound and visuals. This speaks to the idea of an unfixed and ever evolving meaning in images and the volatile nature of representation and the role technology plays in the re-presentation and reproduction of images, meaning and value. Blue is not the concept but an accessible entry point into exploring the conversation about language and our relationships to visual and sonic codes. It is a simple way of talking about associations, what they mean to us and how they may change.
