crosstalk projects

time lapseSpitKit

Spitting and communication

2003 The underground staff “spit kit” – sample spittle and identify assaulters through DNA. Also traffic wardens in Edinburgh and bus staff. Staff have been given a pair of sterile latex gloves, a self-sealing bag and two sterile swabs to collect a sample to prevent the evidence being lost. Pass on to police for analysis. Communication through gobbing.

The problem of scale - many natural processes are beyond human scales of perception, too long or too quick.
Chain reaction films –
the event passing precariously from one actor to the next.
This could be recorded time lapse in the case of natural processes to bring them up to human levels of duration.
Each stage in the relay becomes a "keyframe"...

(C5 "analogous landscapes")
mapping fox trails onto urban environments?

embodied phone calls