'This isn't a normal Sunday' is Katriona Beales' latest video in a series exploring information excess. Rather than contesting the acceleration of information and the proliferation of images Katriona embraces panic, excess, proliferation, overload and attempt to re-enact this emphatically. She intentionally abandons all notion of narrative, gleefully overlapping and interrupting short videos with others totally out of place or context, not as a way of building a unity of meaning but as a way of reflecting on acceleration.
Katriona overlaps myriad pop-up windows on a computer screen, then uses screencasting techniques to record the content interacting. In each window is a different video - the artist's own footage gathered from Tokyo, Florence and the UK. All the videos playing together overload the computer's memory - both audio and video stutter and start. The overlapped audio from the myriad of films becomes overloud, uncomfortable and unknowable - meaning subsumed within a whole lot of noise. "The media experiencer can no longer be figured as a 'spectator' standing apart from and overlooking a homogenous visual field. Rather he or she must parse multiple, windowed image sources as rhythmic patterns and as information fields" ['Post-Cinematic' by Shaviro (2009) p.81].
This video was supported by the CCW Artist Moving Image Initiative Film Fund 2011-12 and will be screened at South London Gallery on the 23rd of May 2012.