1997 to 98

Total Parts is a three-channel video installation that documents a series of Blindfolded Camera Walks the artist conducted in the historic natural landscape of Salisbury Plane (UK). The project considers the impact of digital recording technology on visual and non-visual sensing.

By walking and recording without seeing, the artist allowed her other senses to guide her exploration of the landscape. The Camera and the Blindfold became tools to separate her senses, whereby she only “sees” her visual experience after the walk has happened. Her distinct senses - corporal, visual and temporal - are then recompiled in the multi-channel video installation and computer network. The project explores the meaning of philosopher Merleau-Ponty’s description on how human senses are both distinct and the same: “Total parts of the same being”. Additionally, the artwork reveals how human perception is a reciprocal process between the body and the environment.

2020

Three-channel video installation, 08min 22sec