One specific part of my trip (should I say) was reccomended by su. It was a eXtremely immersive cinematic tourist snap taster of the whole of New Zealand in 7mins. The ride at NZ's national museum Te Papa was called:
The High Ride – Te Ekenga Teitei
Imagine the most exciting clips from the Our Space media bank.The thrills of extreme sports, free running, flying foxes.
The nostalgia of trundling over cattlestops, sliding down grassy hills.
Clips that ride back in time.
Clips that go all around and under New Zealand.
Now imagine you enter the Wall and live these scenes first hand.
That's the High Ride.
Te Papa link
..... So i thought that it was a well rounded take on stereotypical tourism NZ. It covered all areas of perception or as how nz is presented to the tourism market overseas... bungee jumping, adventure, bush land, clean, grren, nature, animals....and then out of left field the viewer takes on the point of view as a maori warrior batteling the early settlers in a brutal war- nutty!
There were so many things and ideas going on with this ...installation? interactive cinema? tourist information booth? roller coaster?
some of these ideas I thought related closely to a theory class i took last year called 'cinematic issues in contemporary art'..... some key ideas were the crossing between modern media such as film and video from cinema space to galleries. The notions of bodliy awareness were/are said to be present out of the blackened cinema and in galleries where your body is more involved in the work or one is conscious of the space you are in.. in this case being tossed around infront of a screen you were defenitely aware you were there but was not comfortable or more importantly immersive.
Bruce nauman's video corridor is a classic example...
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