In a similar strain of the contrasts between the experiences of the live audience and the captured experience, there was this artist I was introduced to recently who goes by the name Cassils. They’re a visual and performance artist who does some really out-there works, but my favorite of theirs is a performance piece called Becoming an Image. In this work, they essentially pound a giant block of clay in a dark room that is occasionally lit by a flash of a camera periodically. This was performed in front of a live audience. The images are incredible and dynamic, but what I am more interested in is how those images contrast the collectively created images of the live audience, who did not see much. The eye is our first capture tool, and I love how the artist plays with this concept throughout this piece- confronting the truths we capture with our eyes vs. the cameras we have invented.
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