Roberta Lima - Traveling the Space Together

In June 2009 I invited Fearghus to “invade” my space. Alternatively, he suggested that we should “travel the space together”. For that, we decided to use wire as a tool for both linking and limiting out bodies. The wire was the cord of the spy camera attached to my chest and connected to the monitor: this broadcast the images of the two of us dancing. Another camera was placed in a tripod, facing the monitor, recording the images from the spy camera. As result, I rediscovered Beigao Studio 5 from other perspectives: my body, the camera, and the monitor had their own way of looking, perceiving and communicating the space. Traveling the Space Together refers to an apparently simple human interaction. Yet that interaction resulted in a complex set of images layered in the video: the black and white images generated by the spy camera were captured with the interferences of the analog monitor and the color reflections of the room on the screen. In addition, Traveling the Space Together shows the people, objects, and the process of its own making.