Drift With Me: Walking, Projecting, Creating
Drift With Me: Walking, Projecting, Creating

Summary/Abstract: The installation-projection in contemporary art practice seeks to open up new spaces, projected light not only creating depth in the black box, but also an uncanny sensorial experience. As a walking artist, my work crosses boundaries between the performative and video practice using soundand the pico-projector. This specific device is sometimes a means to create with groups of participants in collaborative walking art work. In an ongoing piece, entitled Drift With Me, various craft practitioners lead me on their daily walks through the countryside. I record the image of the path and our conversation. I then project the walk on their hands as they weave, draw, paint, make pottery, etc. The moving path, hands and materials become one. In the exhibition space, the final videos and sound work are projected on the ground on squares of earth: an invitation for the spectator to explore different crafts and paths. This article bases its discussion on questions that arise in the field of intermedial artistic video and sound practices and in particular those using projection and walking. In such projects, how does the use of the pico-projector and sound weave interconnections between walking and crafting? While Lars Elleström’s theoretical work on the concept of intermediality is a useful tool to understand the multiple relations between the different forms of media and technology in my artistic practice when using sound, video-projection and walking, we shall base our analysis on the works of British anthropologist Tim Ingold, and also Pascale Weber and Daphné Le Sergent, both French theoreticians in the field of visual art.

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