Voices of the Unseen
2 screen-channel video installation. 7 min. 2008. HD/Photo animation
Narrator: Nadia Mazzoni
1:30 min. excerpt
Voices of the Unseen comprises a double screen video installation with a voiceover.
The character (voiceover) is situated in a classical Scandinavian urban environment, a street in a generic, timeless, middle class environment. While we listen to the character slowly loosing her mind, the visual starts to shift. It is late evening or early morning, still dark or beginning to get dark, and the only thing happening in the images are the mist slowly moving into one image and out of the other image.
While the narrator describes her apartment, one encounter two exterior pictures of a street. They are almost completely identical, and as a viewer one are positioned midway between these images, as if standing in a street.
Excerpt from voiceover:
I had walked for a while when I sensed a person looking at me.
I stopped for a minute and glanced back, wondering who this person might be. I got nervous by the thought of being detected, but most of all I felt uncovered, realizing this person made my throat go unpleasantly dry after feeling so exposed, my hands sweaty and my fingers pulling nervously around my neck.
It was a moment of hesitation. This stranger, a complete alien, had followed me.
Installation shots: Voices of the Unseen. KHM. Malmö, Sweden. 2008
