How can we communicate with people passing-by
through the windows of the bar? How can we give
them something to experience on a visual,
embodied and participatory level?
The sound works
We see potential in live communicating through our mic with them outside.
Small encounters come along, we can hear random conversations of people passing-by.
When someone stops to converse with us, we ask them to stand in the light of the sun
so we can capture their sihouet. We fill the bar again, slowly the scenography grows.
And thus become the spectators our visuals.
We want people passing by to think that "Something is really happening here.."
a nice breezy talk, observing and being entertaint is what you experience when you go to a café. It's a meetingplace, a time to relax with friends, going on a date or to communicate
with collegues. A specific mood that we miss in these times. We are used to reflect on our daily life.
How can we introduce this again, in between your walks? How can we create an intimate space, space for experiencing something new? As an abstract hug, or just a nice conversation?
An experiment to give a notion of the interior.
The effect was romantic, people heard a dialogue of two fictive personages being in the bar (computervoices, to break the romaticness) but it was not enough to make them stand and watch.
Where we blending in the overall view to much? Nobody really took the time to watch or listen to the story, and if they did, we wouldn't have seen it as clear as we wanted. We coudn't react on it. The experiment was good to explore our possibilities of the space but was not interesting enough to go further with. Working on this visual limited us in time, the evening curvue of 9 p.m and the sunset which came later and later blocked us, we made ourselves visible but that was not the aim. We were looking for interaction.
So we worked further on the sound-system,
Elsa van der Linden (musician) and I placed
a microphone on the scone. The Transuser was replaced by a bluetooth one, we connected a mic for us and so real contact is created.
