Dominic Till

Where we stood once removed, where we stand twice returned looks at ideas surrounding displacement amongst humankind and the relationships we hold with others. This manifests itself through a moving image and sound installation. I am looking at the ways one may position oneself within different social realms whilst interrogating what this entails so that differing narratives can be formed, dependent upon the viewer/listener.

Looking at the presence of others, in relation to the comings and goings one experiences throughout our lives, and this being a repetitive element that is an unavoidable aspect of human-lie. Through this work I am attempting to seek out connections through metaphors that can be attached to experience and subsequently communicated through sound which is triggered via motion sensors, highlighting the need for human presence for the piece to become active (a coming and going in itself). The presence of others is explored different moving image pieces of people waving, that goes in and out of a negative space (present/not present). I am attempting to create an immersive experience where the viewer/listener can explore what their own attachments to these sounds might be, as they are not necessarily prescribed and think about those comings and goings that I previously mentioned.

I strive to engage the viewer/listener, through the presence of others, as I aspire for it to be physical experience of their own. This is a prompt for the opening up of one's own personal attachments and discourse in relation to others. These others may be known or unknown, they may be the bodies of those that are placed within the work or alternatively the bodies that they themselves know.