
Transit 是一个大型视频装置,位于洛杉矶国际机场的汤姆·布拉德利国际航站楼,播放在五十八个背靠背的高清显示器上,这些显示器弯曲地悬挂在到达等候区上方。这段十五分钟的视频展示了数百名行人剪影,他们在从左到右不停移动的背景下参与了一个松散的叙事。期间,旅客偶尔会放下行李,开始欢快地跳舞,这些舞蹈风格反映了洛杉矶的多样性:从嘻哈到萨尔萨、芭蕾和朋克。
中途,高清故事碎成抽象的片段,多重拷贝的旅客擦过屏幕向前移动;倒行的旅客漂浮向后;人群从单个旅客中迸发出;一位身穿红色衣服的女士出现,但却被所有人忽视。
该项目是与编舞师Francesca Penzani和摄像师Noah Cunningham合作完成的。加州艺术学院综合媒体中心为项目制作提供了大量设施和支持。
28-channel multi-HD video installation
Transit is a large-scale video installation in the Los Angeles International Airport’s Tom Bradley International Terminal that plays on fifty-eight back-to-back HD monitors curving above the arrivals waiting area. The fifteen-minute video features hundreds of pedestrians in silhouette who take part in a loose narrative grounded in their ceaseless movements left to right. Against this backdrop, travelers occasionally put down their bags and break into exuberant dance routines in styles that reflect L.A.’s diversity: from Hip-Hop to Salsa, Ballet, and Punk.
Mid-way through, the high-definition story shatters into abstracted fragments as multiple copies of travelers wipe forward across the screens; moon-walking travelers float backwards; crowds spew out from single travelers; and a Lady in Red appears who is ignored by them all.
The project is a collaboration with Choreographer Francesca Penzani, and videographer Noah Cunningham. The California Institute of the Arts Center for Integrated Media offered substantial facilities and support for the project’s production.