installation invite

Yeah, I was in this costume a few times! [spoilers.] Do you remember when we met?

 

A collaboration between Goldsmiths PhD art candidates Elly Clarke and Andrea Khora involving method swapping, (consensual) handing over of agency and (financial) investment in the process.

 

Words:

Drag

Love

Communication

Machines

Fluttering darkness

Intravenous injection

Undulating flesh

Hospital corridor

Blue blanket

+/- 60 more

 

Machines:

WhatsApp

VQGAN + Clip

GPT-2

DJ Pro

Epson Projector

 

Material:

Habotai Silk

A4 paper

A2 posters

Magnets

Wire

 

Method:

Artist A hands over agency + three images + four key words to Artist B who hands over partial agency to VQGAN + Clip which exports 4000 .png images + one .mp4 moving image file which Artist B hands back to Artist A along with their own .png image folder + .mov + .mp4 files and agency, which Artist A inputs to DJ Pro. There, all media is mixed together over a period of approximately 15 mins to the sounds of Laurie Anderson, Wolfram, Stefflon Don, HVOB, Kraftwerk and others. This is exported as a .mov file from which Artist A takes a series of screenshots that are shared with Artist B. From these, three images are selected for print. Meanwhile Artist B hands over some of the same words given to VQGAN + Clip and more agency to GPT-2 out which the title Yeah, I was in this costume a few times! [spoilers.] Do you remember when we met? was generated.

 

This installation of images and silks is part of the PhD Art Programme’s Installation series, which artist researchers at Goldsmiths use as an experimental space to test new things out and as a catalyst for conversations around art as research, research as art and materiality / things in real space. This is our first collaboration.

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