Notes in the dark: Turner Prize Charlotte Prodger
Swans and ducks on beach, Wind in microphone booms along with the sound of waves.
Toilet stories - people thinking she is a boy. Stationery camera, no jiggle. Definite whop whop of wind.
Being mistaken for boy - is it because with swans we admire even though we can’t tell sex?
“closeted as well as a cradle snatcher”
Beep + standing stones and heather hills. Quiet, no speech but yellow capitalised text of names and the ward grid and Agnes Martin. Wind in microphone whops plus water, grasses and occasional insect, airplane and footsteps.
Where else do people sit on the floor? Airports when fights cancelled.
Fourth wall “ and now while you are watching it” - activity of the ward.
Black
Speech
General moor sound runs into this black
Speech, scream? Hurdy gurdy
Red +
Loud and a bit painful
Overlaid (?) of stationary TV screen, lights mountain sky
Finger obscures image partially, complexity (?) red then blue of sky. Is the mountain japanese? Is it Mt Fuji, initial word. Image of Charlotte on screen- no, Swiss type and lots of dust
Moves to cat, stretched out on bed asleep.
(lean against wall, but there are sound panels at shoulder height which means leaning is painful and unsupported, handbag in small of back)
Whop whop of wind on the thrum of engine on Ferry, looking back over trail, almost but not always horizontal up down of boat like up down of camera in initial shot in bed, rise and fall of breath -long shot of long journey, quiet, seeing no change
Sandy Stone 1999
Virtual systems theory
Technology / embodiedness etc
Island of nuns 4 year isolation retreats
Bandwidth and reality,
hot medium wide,
cool medium - narrow bandwidth
Computer view text - more deep and obsessive connection - like nuns on island
Obvious but not stated
Space for own thought
Bigger rise and fall of boat standing stones
Lesbian seperation
Laughter from audience
Sandy Stone
Child and parent with baby walk in, little boy was (?) to the front and sits on floor with others as if this is normal - which in primary school it probably is.
T shirt with cat mage, face like cat enjoying light
Sock an blacker just visible rising and falling with breathing
Sinuses recover room nurse - altered states
Socket crooked compared to skirting board
Fall asleep
Agressive
Don’t know had op
Dog and standing stone and expanding white line grid overlay wider and wider until just central line on standing stone and five horizontal lines visible (sketch).
(I thought the grid was going to be like an archaic computer game, especially after she describes the recovery nurse (two twelve hour shifts a week) who did the animation for her, rather than just expanding lines.)
No sound
Thank you
And references
The war of desire 199?
Blank - people sit still don’t know its finished
can’t leave until it starts agains as then the light levels go up
Glarey window with plants and trainers
Slight jerk of focus
Rise and fall of breathing
Radio? Tv? friends(male) in background, half a telephone conversation
Squeaky thumpy music
Describe focused attention of the upcoming surgery “But your no there”
Misty hillside
Scratchy music overlaps the quiet birdsong
Still, complex but stationery
(?)
19/19 acid Julian Cope
(Two people come and get along wall closer to screen but not against wall so obscure my view by at least half)
Great Mother
Tanker
Aberdeenshire
Residential care home work didn’t know any lesbians - no experience
18 month waiting whilst full time shift work - limbo closeted libidinious energy
Using screens, texting screens
In
Black bird song (?)
Red
Beep
Black
Australian anaesthetist transition room
Chatting
Greening yellow glow on screen
What you think about now is what you are going to dream about
Filed sliced show
Longer that I realised being (?)(ref to own GA experience)
Last content before nothing
Brighter yellow
Strange burning plastic machine plus its noise (read this as nausea first)
Not clear what it is doing
Just see laser cutting? Or laser building in plastic
Cat enjoying light
Fills screen black
Cat white light.
Changing angle, bit of flare
Loose jazz with clunky thump
Like shoe in washing machine
Who still sets watch to beep? Or has phone that beeps (? ? ) and his phone is annoying me - he should be at the back or outside
Lots of flare
Bits of flowerpots
(Drawing)
Enjoyment
Squiggly sax
White bright
The view of red lorry
In winter landscape keeping
Pace with train and speech
Bridget names
Red tanker on misty ocean
Deities many names
3 diff phases old, middle aged, young - different names
Repeats names of goddesses
Furry cap brim and cherry trees in blossom against grey sky
General sounds of people in background, shouting, footsteps
Hat moves against net(?) of trees, loud (?) noise and airplane or thunder?
Specific dates without year
Some direct quotes
Quiet, three standing stones
Yellow Text
Ward 48 Grid
7:30 wait . ward
theater recovery
(sketch much easier with pen on paper)
Next one comes in …
(footsteps)
Everyday
This infinite
Time space (?)
Before I was there
When I wrote this
When I edited it
When you watch this
Phone goes off
Black. Or lighter
Low?
Yellow (?)
Red
Identity package
The adult is not merely the child a bit later on in time
Scrabbled in handbag for phone next door
TURIYA
on TV screen with raueam (?) music
Fingers
(I looked it up - it is a sanskrit word meaning consciousness )
The Tate publication says this is her computer monitor with a named flat drive visible- named after Alice Coltrane (jazz musician)