“VVV Residency is a space of critical reflection on video libraries and a production time for videoart. The residency focuses on the video-trouvé as a tool to look at one’s own research through the eyes of others: a topic to face nowadays where human interaction and perception of reality is continuously glitching within screen interfaces.”
A 2 month residency, using endless streams of online data and appropriating this into new video work. A process of digital foraging and manipulating to construct new meanings from the sources gathered.
This process was documented on blogger as part of a collaborative feedback and research process: https://www.blogger.com/blog/posts/8559314411812013999
After the residency the work was exhibited in SuperOtium, Naples, Italy and then went live on a 24/7 loop at https://www.visualcontainer.tv/ from 15th March – 24th April, 2024
“Mumasha, a Hunger, an Endless Flow”
“Mumasha, a Hunger, an Endless Flow is the title with which the curators of the VVV-R project, Alessandra Arnò and Simona Da Pozzo, present the process and the works created between January and March as part of the online residency. Thanks to the exploration of images and clips found in the vast sea of the web, with this exhibition, the artists Nancy Violet Downs, Chanda Mwamba, William Sipling and Prajvi Mandhani restore to our vision the process of re-signification of some fragments of the digital imagination collective through four works in a loop.” – visualcontainer.tv
Flux. Electrical Murmuring
William Sipling
Flux. Electrical Murmuring
3’45’’, 1920×1080 (1.0), 16:9, stereo, uk, 2024
William Sipling followed the sound of energy : the everyday buzz, the drone of powerlines and his phone charger. An everyday hum that he chases up to, the kettle, to the food he cooks and the bus he travels around on.
These electrical structures supply us with our essential needs and our pleasure, but also supply us with our bills and our struggles. These structural connections have become even more apparent in the current economic landscape of the UK, with the country in a recession and a rise in poverty.
Flux compiles capitalist energy structures and threads narratives of current economic recession in the UK from firsthand experiences and perspectives of people through interviews, layered over a soundscape of sampled energy.
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