Predicting, 2016

Video projection with printed handout.
Colour, with sound, 2 min 53 secs.

Predicting is a video with sound, accompanied by a printed handout. The handout contains the referenced script.

The work juxtaposes videos and quotes about the use of Google Search with those about the fortune-telling practice of palmistry, something which is generally seen as implausible, in an attempt to provoke other ways of thinking about this seemingly routine contemporary encounter.

Video stills:

black and white archive film footage of two hands shaking. cuffs of men's clothing can be seen
black and white archive film footage, a hand enters from the right hand side of the frame.
black and white archive film footage of a hands holding a newspaper. a man's face can be seen from behind the paper. In front, text reads "how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it"
a black border around a pinky coloured rectangle. Text in front reads "traces of our intent"
view looking down onto a laptop screen. the reflection show hands on the keyboard
out of focus close up of part of a hand. black text over the image says: "past, for we know what ancestors of this type have always done"
tones of white skin and a white strip are the background of the image. Text in front reads: "looking at what we were looking for"
Link to video on vimeo
Predicting, 2016 (video file)
The accompanying handout can be accessed here:Download

This work was produced for the ‘Archives and Historical Resources’ Postgraduate Elective short course at the Glasgow School of Art taught by Debi Banerjee.

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