Instalation project

Obviously, by now you know I have an unhealthy love with Miranda July. There are several other installation artists I love that often use film (samples at bottom), but Miranda July always has a very playful, beautiful, and smart quality to her projects. Our group has agreed to do a project with her in mind as spirit (I'm thinking of The Swan Tool here). The project with involve projected images onto a giant sphere, covered in different materials to give the texture of a planet. The story will call for two actors. Each one is unsatisfied with life, unable to find love and meaning on any planet they traveled to. They both hired a construction company to build a planet so they could live the rest of their lives alone and in piece and then were each placed on the same planet without each other's knowledge. Eventually they meet and are annoyed by each other, realizing the construction company has deceived both of them. Despite being virtually identical, both resent each other, denying that they are perfect for one another. A romantic relationship is suggested, but never realized. At the end, both decide to jump into a volcano, realizing they have no place in the universe. The play will be both dark and funny, with a style similar to Miranda July and Samuel Beckett. I will be one actor and I believe I've convinced one of the theater students to be the other actress. If not, Kristina will play one of the rolls. I will also be writing the script, handing it to the group and ask for some opinions and possible revisions. Laura will be in charge of researching materials for the construction of the sphere and I believe we will all be involved in the engineering and construction of it. I will probably assign either Megan or Kristina with the task of putting together the projected images after the screen play is complete. The projected images will be found footage of construction sites, workers, machines, etc . providing the landscape "backdrop" for the world. This is what we got so far. Below are things I love:

Miranda July- Love Diamond (Excerpt) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuU99STtP2s

Bruce Nauman- Good Boy, Bad Boy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VugLUa47sLI&feature=related
AND Feed Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxmm16gqRis&feature=related

Paul Pfeiffer- Morning After The Deluge (with commentary) http://www.pbs.org/cgi-registry/mediaplayer/videoplayer.cgi?playeraddress=videoplayer.cgi;media=%2Fart21%2FPP4_video_lo.rm%2C%2Fart21%2FPP4_video_hi.rm%2C%2Fart21%2FPP4_video_lo.mov%2C%2Fart21%2FPP4_video_hi.mov%2C%2Fart21%2FPP4_video_lo.wmv%2C%2Fart21%2FPP4_video_hi.wmv;title=%22Morning%20After%20the%20Deluge%22%20video%20installation%20by%20Paul%20Pfeiffer;widescreen=true;playertemplate=%2Fart21%2FTemplates%2Fart21_mp.html

Krzysztof Wodiczko- Tijuana, Mexico http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juq-Z48lY7g
AND Bunker Hill, Boston http://www.pbs.org/cgi-registry/mediaplayer/videoplayer.cgi?playeraddress=videoplayer.cgi;media=%2Fart21%2F3_KW2_video_lo.rm%2C%2Fart21%2F3_KW2_video_hi.rm%2C%2Fart21%2F3_KW2_video_lo.mov%2C%2Fart21%2F3_KW2_video_hi.mov%2C%2Fart21%2F3_KW2_video_lo.wmv%2C%2Fart21%2F3_KW2_video_hi.wmv;title=Video%20projection%20on%20the%20Bunker%20Hill%20Monument%20by%20Krzysztof%20Wodiczko%20in%20Boston%2C%20MA;widescreen=true;playertemplate=%2Fart21%2FTemplates%2Fart21_mp.html

Anti VJ- Songdo http://www.antivj.com/songdo/index.htm

Ryan Trecartin- I-BE AREA (first article, then video) http://arttorrents.blogspot.com/2008/02/ryan-trecartin-i-be-area-2007.html
http://www.ubu.com/film/trecartin_area.html

Anthony McCall- Light Describing a Cone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-HWsxPnNNY