AUDIO VISUAL SELFPORTRAIT 

This project is aimed to explore self portraiture through audio visual work. Even though a self-portrait is most referred to as a representation of an artist that is drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by the artist, I believe that it can also be expressed through broader mediums such as composition, video art and installations, as well as simultaneous expression of the artists characteristics and emotions through both sound and image.

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Why audiovisual installation? 'transmedia' art?

I believe that, there are more than one way for artists/musicians to express themselves. The crossover between image and sound and the in-between where self-portraiture can fit somewhere intervening. Installation allows the audience to be in the deliberately present in the selected environment and space. In the 1970s and beyond, boundaries between various media were put into question, not only that the project will be exploring audiovisual installation but to explore the new possibilities in which sound could be shown through video art, installation and other intermedia and hybrid work. 

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Alisa Lebow stated in the "The Cinema of Me"

"Visual self-portrait's tradition is one of direct interpellation, owning the gaze that the image of the artist/author in the portrait very frequently exchanges with the spectator standing before it [...] And yet, similarly to the literary self-portrait, the audio visual one has much to do with the monologue, in which the spectator is in the position of an overseeing/overhearing third person" (Lebow, 2012) 

If the statement is true, what about the gap in between the two Lebow has stated? An installation which still keeps the direct interpellation of​ "traditional" self-portrait, but at the same time gives viewers with the sense of being a third person of an audio-visual self-portrait. 

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