Broadcast Lab: BLUE LINE, NO COMFORT ZONE and THE SKIN OF AN OCTOPUS

Broadcast Lab: BLUE LINE by Oseremen Irete, NO COMFORT ZONE by UYEMI and THE SKIN OF AN OCTOPUS by Nicole Charlton Goodbrand. Curated by Contra and Jae Sterling.
BLUE LINE by Oseremen Irete
Blue Line is a song I wrote about
living on the other side of the country
and missing someone a lot. The
accompanying video captures that
feeling by blending documentary
photography with Artificial Intelligence
to create a visual that feels like an
ever fading photograph. Always,
just, slipping past your mind's grasp.
The source materials for the visual
are 500 photographs of my partner
and various locations assembled by
machine learning.
NO COMFORT ZONE by UYEMI
This exhibition is all about stepping
out of your comfort zone, whether
it’s in your personal relationships,
within yourself, your career, your job,
you are doing things you’ve never
done before which can be quite scary.
I chose "Mindful" because it was the
perfect visual to showcase the subject
in the video being confronted with her
life choices. She is shown in a messy
room, drinking heavily and, in total
juxtaposition, we see her higher self on
the screen reminding her of her worth
and the steps to get out of that space.
It also, in a way, is me stepping out
of my comfort zone and for the first
time shooting a music video on such
a large scale, in terms of working with
people I do not personally know, being
the centre of attention, and working
with a full crew. Even though we may
do cringe-worthy things when we get
uncomfortable or when we are bold,
we slowly give ourselves a chance to
evolve every time we choose the “no
comfort zone.”
THE SKIN OF AN OCTOPUS by Nicole Charlton Goodbrand
The Skin of an Octopus is an
interdisciplinary work that follows
the surreal story of an octopus,
whose curiosity about the human
world consumes their sensibility,
morality, and identity, as they traverse
through the land of fresh air and
evergreen trees in someone else's
skin. Over the past year, dancer/
choreographer Nicole Charlton
Goodbrand has been working in
collaboration with interactive media/
projection artist Derek Demassi
and architect/visual artist/writer/
filmmaker Ryan Arnold to further
examine the layered complexities
of human behaviour and distorted
personal realities. This work was
created, performed and filmed by
Charlton Goodbrand, with text and
spoken word written and performed
by Arnold.
This exhibition is all about stepping
out of your comfort zone, whether
it’s in your personal relationships,
within yourself, your career, your job,
you are doing things you’ve never
done before which can be quite scary.
I chose "Mindful" because it was the
perfect visual to showcase the subject
in the video being confronted with her
life choices. She is shown in a messy
room, drinking heavily and, in total
juxtaposition, we see her higher self on
the screen reminding her of her worth
and the steps to get out of that space.
It also, in a way, is me stepping out
of my comfort zone and for the first
time shooting a music video on such
a large scale, in terms of working with
people I do not personally know, being
the centre of attention, and working
with a full crew. Even though we may
do cringe-worthy things when we get
uncomfortable or when we are bold,
we slowly give ourselves a chance to
evolve every time we choose the “no
comfort zone.
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