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FINAL VIDEO ESSAY

I wanted to experiment with how clear the writing was, and how much of a sensory experience it could be. I took the poem I wrote in full, and split it up first by sentence, then by word, put the fragments in a hat, and put them down in the order I pulled them out.

I am attracted to how nonsensical they are, but having done this exercise I think what is important to me about this writing is that it is coherent enough for the viewer to feel as though they go on a journey to sensory deprivation, rather than entering the writing in their aware state, when the writing is so abstracted.

I think for that reason the original poem works best, particularly in terms of flow and narrative journey, without being too explicit.

Poetry for film

This piece of writing to be put with the film. An amalgamation of the writings I have done whilst in various states of sensory deprivation, as well as connective thoughts based upon the process and experience of being a sensorially deprived state, written whilst aware.

Writing after having had no sleep for 30 hours. Inhibiting the senses in another way reminiscent of illness.

Planning for transcript of video essay - Dada sound poetry visuals as reference

Planning for transcript of video essay

Experimenting with sensorially deprived sound in the making of the video - this came to mind - is literally a depiction of an our of body experience and the sound of Voldemorts echoing voice feels simultaneously close and far away.

Artist - Annie Vought “The last word on the word”, 2015, paper

Vought cuts letters out of paper with an exacto knife, layering them up in ways that are reflective of both the content of the writing and of the person who wrote it. Way of making words a visual experience outside of the mind.

Reading 15 notes and quotes - “Art and the Senses” - book of readings.

Reading 14 notes and quotes - John C. Lilly “The Deep Self, 1977

Peoples writings about their experience of sensory deprivation - getting a sense of how the experience can feel for a range of people, a considering what a person is without their senses.

From: “The Deep Self”, John C. Lilly, 1977

The process of the mind in the body when deprived of sensory stimulation in a sensory deprivation tank.

Images from: “The Deep Self”, John C. Lilly, 1977

They bear a striking but coincidental similarity to my images, like the “Stranger Things” sensorial deprivation imagery.

Part one of a very interesting documentary on the happening of the mind whilst experiencing sensory deprivation - REFERENCE

Aesthetic Comparison - depicting the senses, or the absence of the senses?

“Stranger Things” Netflix 2016 // My earlier work - cropping photographic pieces.

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Stranger Things (2016) / Under the Skin (2013)

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“Stranger Things”, Series, Netflix, 2016

Perception/Sensory deprivation in popular culture.

‘El’, who possesses powers of telekinesis, enters a deprivation tank in order tap into this semi-conscious part of her brain. By eliminating external stimuli she can enhance her mind from the inside out, rather than the outside in.

Visually, when i was watching the series I was struck by how aesthetically similar the images were to the work I had produced earlier, which is what prompted me to revisit and reconsider it.

NOTE: 5 inward wits, 5 outward wits

The inward wits (derived from Aristotle’s faculties of the soul - De Anima):

"common wit", "imagination", "fantasy", "estimation", and "memory"

Outward wits (the senses)

“hearing”, “sight”, “smelling”, “touch” and “taste”

The way these ‘wits’ interact forms the foundation for perception. Not just how the world is given to us, and how we then perceive it, but what our souls then make of this relationship.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_wits

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