Can you hear the silence?
When words are not needed
Performance video “When words are not needed”
."When words are not needed" is a video performance .
Idea, filming, editing: Sarah Kaurin Jonassen
Idea, filming, editing: Sarah Kaurin Jonassen
Nature
Thank you nature
for always being there.
For always being around.
Staying around.
I did not see you properly
before now.
I needed separation from the city to see you.
The silence gives me now more then the silence in the city.
Thank you nature
for always being there.
I need you now more then ever,
now that the city is unbearable to listen too.
Now the sounds of the woods and ocean is the fuel in my life.
Now that we have to listen to silence
I can hear silence.
Silence is not really silence.
Silence is full of life.
Can I create intimacy and sensuousness with only pictures?
Can I create an intimate experience for the spectator watching a video?
I had a lot of videos and recorded sounds on my phone from walking in the forest and close to the coastline. I wanted to recreate feeling of being in the nature and showing the sensuousness in nature. With slow movements and long clips of videos, I wanted the viewer to feel the tempo of the nature as if being there. Also using the sounds of nature, creating a feeling of being in nature.
I wanted to create an intimate experience on a digital platform. Especially since people used more time on screens as result of the pandemic. With being less intimate in the physical space, could I create intimacy in the digital space?
It has been perfect time to test out digital platforms. If it is possible to create intimacy, sensuousness and interaction with audience. During this time I have not worked with a live digital platform, and that is something I will have to try in the future.