"What you need to know " (excerpt), an audio-video installation, 2004
andrew wood
photography and visual art
tel: +44 7789 547098
moving image
An exploration the meaning and power of written text: as
symbols, graphics and a vehicle for both communication and miscommunication,
able to inform yet also perplex. From 2002-4 I experimented with multimedia
and the spoken word in a performance-based environment working in Hungary,
the "cut-up" technique being a common
visual thread to my work. This work meshes together sound bites from various
government literature and film from events in Brighton. The viewer
is hypnotised, disturbed, irritated, and unable to consciously absorb the
information he is confronted with. The challenge is to make a choice: to
extrapolate and understand meaning from the details, or to try and make
sense of the work holistically.