Let's See What Happens.....Tim Davies

Let's See What Happens.....Tim Davies

Davies has made two new works inspired by recent visits to Xiamen. Chase and Market 8 stem from his interest in how architectural spaces are negotiated and experiences in every life. Chase reveals a fleeting moment as a figure is seen running through streets in an increasingly frenzied movement, culminating in hurried glances of new vertical buildings. As a counterpoint, Market 8 is essentially a recording of people going about theirs daily business in one of Xiamen's street markets. Tim Davies represented Wales at the 54th Venice Biennale of Art in 2011.

This is from the Glynn Vivian Information leaflet.

Below are the photos that I took of the Market 8 video. The video was projected down from the ceiling onto a screen that was angled, so not flat to the floor and not stood up right. The video was about people going about their daily lives in a street market (as said above) but rather than a normal, straight forward recording it was played in reverse so the people appeared to be walking backwards and the camera moved as if going in reverse. 

This is a better photo to show how the board was angled and also how I viewed it.

Below are the photos of the Chase. When I walked into the room there were four really large screens playing all at once and very loud surrounding industrial, distorted, city type music/sounds that were playing. With the coldness of the room and the ceiling supports being in the centre of the room it made the experience better as the feel of the room, the music and The imagery on the screen all fitted together well and pulled me into the exhibition.

On the screens the fours videos were in fact the same video being played over and over but spaced apart, so when one started, a few seconds into playing the next screen would start playing from the beginning and so on. The video was of someone running and the camera would shake and there would be the trailed image of the building that you would get if you knocked a camera during a long exposure.

This is the link to Tim Davies Website http://www.timdaviesartist.com/index.htm