Solsiden (a Video Sketchbook), video installation and book, 2006 (ongoing)

 

The Video Sketchbooks are an ongoing experiment in photographic notation and exercise, in which I create a method/space for registering and testing ideas without them having to take the final form of an artwork. They are also a way of focusing my thinking in the temporal and geographical present, acknowledging the idiosyncrasies of a new environment, showing people, animals, places, objects and events, all happening by chance.

 

The images are photographic stills recorded on tape, lasting 5 to 7 seconds each, together with the sound of the time that each photograph was taken.
The work can be experienced either as a projection with sound, or as a photobook.

 

Solsiden is a video sketchbook created during a research period at LKV in Trondheim, Norway. It is a description of the city and its people. Norway is a country where the people are very proud of their identity, which manifests itself in many different forms. Here we can note that Norwegian architecture has a very specific colour palette.

 

© Frederico Câmara 2006