The Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville is hosting ‘Slow Dancing’ (2007), a work by David Michalek. Michalek uses a military-grade super-slow motion camera to record dancers at 1000 frames per second, then plays them back at the usual fps but REALLY REALLY BIG. More info here. I’d embed some kind of image but the Slow Dancing site says don’t do that. It’s been shown in New York, L.A., Toronto, Venice, Hanover NH, and now, (ever the underdog cultural hub) Northwest Arkansas.
[...] Art Video of the Day: Slow Dancing by David Michalek. (Via MWCapacity.) [...]
I went and saw this last night. It’s really cool, kind of hypnotizing, actually. You slow down with the videos. You think, OK, I get it, I’m gonna get going. And then you stand there another ten minutes. Some interesting things, specific to the Fayetteville install:
The sounds of a karaoke version of “Love Shack” drifting through the air.
One of the regular religious-sign-holding Dickson Street demonstrators, standing below the installation. Sign read, “God Hates Immodesty”.
Someone said, “feels like an Italian piazza” which it kinda did, in a nice way. Minus the two things I mentioned above.
awwww…”God Hates…” signs…it’s making me homesick for the Ozarks. Too bad you didn’t get a picture, that would’ve been a good one to put up at the top of the post.
I’m glad the videos work. I’ ve seen things like this that just don’t have to power they ought to have. Look better on paper than in person. Michalek’s process seems a lot more involved than the things I’ve seen.
“Look better on paper than in person.”
This sentence, when applied to videos, is just awesome in so many ways.
Sorry to double comment, but that is just one of the better sentences I have seen in a long time. It doesn’t need to be applied to videos, it could stand alone.
Outstanding!
That single sentence might make Conceptual Art more accessible and understandable to a lot of people.