Concept
Walking Portraits forms an audiovisual piece made of a series of walking performances across 5 London station areas for 5 days; documented through video, sound and GPS. It focuses on a geography on foot, one which highlights the mundane and unnoticed details of everyday life. The work constitutes a performance of a metaphor in everyday spaces of transition which blur the concepts of private and public space. The artist walks repetitively from interior to exterior of transit spaces; following found urban patterns: different asphalt cracks, signs and coloured lines. Departing from Benjamin’s metaphor on ‘botanising on the asphalt’, Psarras goes botanising on the various surfaces and material layers of the everyday; an action magnified by camera’s position, which set an ongoing sensory dialogue while little topographies are revealed in the porous surfaces of them. The performance had a series of outputs ranging from audiovisual piece to a series of photographs and visualised GPS data in abstract maps.
Description
Performance for camera, sound, GPS data, 5 days (20Km)
Technical: HD video, colour, stereo sound
Duration: 3:45’
Year: 2012
Credits
Concept - Performance - Creation: Bill Psarras
Selected Exhibitions
The work was awarded with the 1st Prize of Cinematique! UK Student Film Festival (2013).
Available Artwork: https://vimeo.com/42905761
