Displaced vision - transmission, telepresence, surveillance and control:
Guided walk: 25mb
Guided walk: Remotely controlled walk around Kench Hill House grounds.
Hand camera 1: 11.8mb
Hand camera 2: 5.5mb
The displaced vision performances started on saturday the 21st and evolved further on sunday the 22nd.
The initial performance (Guided Walk), a controlled, broadcast walk, used ideas concerning transmission to allow performers to direct a blindfolded performers actions in a space via a walkie-talkie. The blind performer essentially became an extension of the directing performers allowing them to be tele-present through him / her. Control was not absolute as the blind performer could diverge from instructions relayed by the directing performer but with no sight, knowledge of where they were and carrying equipment, did so at their own risk. The first video here shows what the directing performers saw and used to direct the blind performer.
Performances on sunday (Hand Camera 1 and 2) using displaced vision returned vision to the previously blind performer. The cameras vision was used as their sight while all other means of seeing were restricted. The focus here was the possibility to extend / manipulate / change the binocular vision that we see with. The performers vision became monocular, could see in different directions and at different angles. The performer could displace their own eye anywhere their body could reach to e.g. the length of their arm, the axes of their wrist and hand combined. They could counteract the brains faculty of inverting what the eye sees by turning their vision upside down and control of their vision could also be given to another performer. Both second and third videos here document these performances.
