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Friday was the final day of my installation, and again I ran the one-day long version down in P3 Ambika. It’s becoming clear that this patch has a life of its own, certain days will see it operate, inexplicably, completely different to the day before. Friday’s run certainly was not as successful as Thursday’s, the recording and playback of clips was suffering from an abnormally low frame-rate, which caused problems during the early part of the run. Later in the day however, the effect was not as noticeable due to the generally more decayed appearance of the projection, and in a way actually contributed to the installation. After a spot of meddling I managed to get the patch running reasonably well, and as the day was far quieter than Thursday in terms of visitors, I began to explore the potential of the patch by using various props.

There was a chair, and a sweeping brush to hand, which I began to move around the space, triggering recordings. I asked visitors to sit on the chair, and to pic up the brush, and within a couple of hours a very complex overlay was beginning to build up showing the chair and brush randomly jerking about the space. When looking at the screen it became impossible to tell where the objects actually were, which was the real object and which was pre-recorded. Visitors become very excited at the sight of themselves standing alongside a previous occupant of the space, especially if that occupant is them. They naturally try to engage with this past incarnation, mirroring their movements, attempting to grasp them.

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