Yvonne Jones: (Artist Researcher)
RM5 Memory Three: (2004).
Video / Form / Process / Context
RM5 Memory Three: (2004).
Video / Form / Process / Context
WARNING some viewers may find this work distressing.
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Installation Memory Three (1 min 22 secs section of 11mins 18 sec video of eye procedure, in full when installed)
Yvonne Jones 2004
Yvonne Jones 2004
Form
The work Memory Three (2004) is an installation piece with audio. The audio was created by Duffnote Ltd. from my memory and discussion with the musicians. It is a recording of eye surgery. The video projection was first shown through a tube, offering a circular image, reflecting the eye orb. Shown later in New Contemporaries in a rectangular format.The work moves towards expressing the vulnerability and fragility of the human corporeal body, creating a visceral space as viewers are presented with the corporeal body, sensing their own corporeal existence. Given the content some viewers may find the work uncomfortable.
Process
The work was created from a video recording (with the full support of the Medics) of a procedure to replace one of my eye lenses, at Moorfields Hospital. I was fully conscious, my eye was frozen, I couldn't feel anything, nor could I see with this eye, nor could I move it. The other eye was roaming around under the vast blueness of the cover to try to find information. All I could see was blue, and at one point a strong light. I could hear the low discussions of the medics, when suddenly a machine began speaking, loud and clear, it is this speaking machine that is embedded in the end-work.
Context
With poor eyesight my glasses prescription was increasing as was the weight and thickness of spectacle lenses. I was not suitable for contact lenses and explored the possibility of Phako Surgery. This is where the natural lens is destroyed and removed then replaced with an artificial prescription lens. I asked to have the procedure recorded. My thanks to the medics for their support and response to my request for records.The video developed into an installation. What intrigued me was the fact of the surgeon, David Gartry, using his eyes to see, to co-ordinate man and machine to benefit my being. I became further intrigued as I developed the piece, the viewer using their eyes to see the projection on the wall, this image coming through the lens of the projector, images which had been captured through the lens of the camera, a scene enabled by the removal of my lens while the surgeon eyes and mind to enact such a precise operation. Light all the way, from surgeon to camera to projector to wall to viewer. The work is part of several medical interventions to my body which opened an increasing awareness of life/death of inside /outside and of our human/posthuman existence. The installation opened the interaction between human and machine and the pathways of light in our existence.
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The work Memory Three (2004) is an installation piece with audio. The audio was created by Duffnote Ltd. from my memory and discussion with the musicians. It is a recording of eye surgery. The video projection was first shown through a tube, offering a circular image, reflecting the eye orb. Shown later in New Contemporaries in a rectangular format.The work moves towards expressing the vulnerability and fragility of the human corporeal body, creating a visceral space as viewers are presented with the corporeal body, sensing their own corporeal existence. Given the content some viewers may find the work uncomfortable.
Process
The work was created from a video recording (with the full support of the Medics) of a procedure to replace one of my eye lenses, at Moorfields Hospital. I was fully conscious, my eye was frozen, I couldn't feel anything, nor could I see with this eye, nor could I move it. The other eye was roaming around under the vast blueness of the cover to try to find information. All I could see was blue, and at one point a strong light. I could hear the low discussions of the medics, when suddenly a machine began speaking, loud and clear, it is this speaking machine that is embedded in the end-work.
Context
With poor eyesight my glasses prescription was increasing as was the weight and thickness of spectacle lenses. I was not suitable for contact lenses and explored the possibility of Phako Surgery. This is where the natural lens is destroyed and removed then replaced with an artificial prescription lens. I asked to have the procedure recorded. My thanks to the medics for their support and response to my request for records.The video developed into an installation. What intrigued me was the fact of the surgeon, David Gartry, using his eyes to see, to co-ordinate man and machine to benefit my being. I became further intrigued as I developed the piece, the viewer using their eyes to see the projection on the wall, this image coming through the lens of the projector, images which had been captured through the lens of the camera, a scene enabled by the removal of my lens while the surgeon eyes and mind to enact such a precise operation. Light all the way, from surgeon to camera to projector to wall to viewer. The work is part of several medical interventions to my body which opened an increasing awareness of life/death of inside /outside and of our human/posthuman existence. The installation opened the interaction between human and machine and the pathways of light in our existence.
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