| Ten Clementines Hitting the Floor is an installation consisting of four screens, three tables, one vase, three plastic flowers, one white tablecloth, and three fake lemons. One suspended screen, on which is projected a sun that never sets, hovers over three television sets, on which play loops of one- to two-second clips that I recorded with an Apple iPhone. This portable device allowed me to realize Gene Youngblood’s 1970 forecast of an “expanded cinema” and to update his theories to what I call “accumulated cinema.” Each clip represents a moment in which I was present and involved no post editing of clip size or structure. The clips were recorded in real time and remain that way.;The installation is an exploration of time, accumulation, and the construction of the reality of self. Albert Camus’s philosophy of the absurd, discussed in The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays, formed the theoretical base from which I examined reality and the construction of self by exploring the notion of knowledge through experience and the importance of the present moment. |
