An installation to disorientate and challenge the role of the audience. UNRESOLVED plays with and against the participant to resolve the mystery. Incoherent pieces of information are fed to them. Each experience is individual between their anonymous messenger and them.
The projection is a series of images of a young girl: ‘ who is she, where is she, what is she doing and what is going to happen- and how did it happen?’ These are the questions that face the viewer. The soundtrack is hectic and doesn’t seem to fit in with what they can see ; full of beats and made like a cut and paste drum machine track. And finally who is sending them instant messages, why? what can they say or do? how do they find out what is going? This is what the audience is faced with, in their displaced inactive orientation they are being prompted to interact with the anonymous instant messenger.
This installation is interactive and is made for one participants to take part at any one time.
The participant is stimulated by looped imagery on the screen, looped sound and live instant messaging. All they are told is that they need to find out what happened. UNRESOLVED is about trying to unfold and resolve the events that have already taken place.
Leicester, 2003