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David Shearing
and it all comes down to this...

Author: David Shearing

Performance space: stage@leeds

Month & year of original production: September 2012

Description of items intended for exhibition:
Video clip
Audio clip

Project description:
An immersive experience created by performance and visual artist David Shearing in collaboration with writer Kamal Hussain and sound composer James Bulley. Designed as a poetic landscape, the piece aimed to create one holistic experience of text, sound and visual material. Staged without performers this design-led installation focused on and subtlety of audience experience; attention, listening and the active exploration of space.

A 16:9 video projection was split into three sections and spatialised to draw the audience into the image. The terrain was constructed from over 4000 fragments of locally sourced glass that glistened in the light. Surrounding the audience was an 8 channel sound composition designed to encourage exploration and was layered with spoken text delivered via headphones. Above the audience a flock of 1000’s of paper birds frozen in mid-flight. Light poured through the bird wings; the subtle movement of paper caused the light beams to flicker and dance.

Artform:
Performance Design
Set Design
Installation

Designers:
Set designer: David Shearing
Sound designer: James Bulley
Digital video NA: David Shearing
Other creative collaborators: Kamal Hussain (Writer), Chloë Jayne Oldridge (Design Assistant), Laura Price (Design Assistant)

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David Shearing - and it all comes down to this...

David Shearing - and it all comes down to this...

David Shearing - and it all comes down to this...

David Shearing - and it all comes down to this...

If anyone wonders why rocks breakdown (image 1)
An immersive multi-speaker sound and video installation in which the audience inhabits and moves through the space. The audience is central to the work; multiple dualisms ask the audience to question their own bodies within the space and how they impact upon the shifting landscape. This impressionistic environment invites participants to walk on a delicate terrain and map their own course through the space. Dual video projection and wireless headphone Technology . Photo by David Shearing

David Shearing - and it all comes down to this...

If anyone wonders why rocks breakdown (image 2)
An immersive multi-speaker sound and video installation in which the audience inhabits and moves through the space. The audience is central to the work; multiple dualisms ask the audience to question their own bodies within the space and how they impact upon the shifting landscape. This impressionistic environment invites participants to walk on a delicate terrain and map their own course through the space. Dual video projection and wireless headphone Technology . Photo by David Shearing



If anyone wonders why rocks breakdown (video documentation)
Short Documentation of 'if anyone wonders why rocks breakdown'. An immersive multi-speaker sound and video installation in which the audience inhabits and moves through the space. The audience is central to the work; multiple dualisms ask the audience to question their own bodies within the space and how they impact upon the shifting landscape.

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