Dinner is Ready
Dinner is Ready
Video with sounds, chopping board
6:38 mins
I am interested in exploring the ASMR video along with the visual content. My video Dinner is Ready shows a knife sharpening and cutting materials that are strange or bizarre: gloves, slippers, and flowers, presented on a flipped-over round table. I replace the original cutting sounds with unexpected, artificial sound effects sound effects to impact the viewer in a discomforting way. The voice-over is saying commanding sentences that are unusual and irrelevant to the visuals. The imagery of the video with the sound presents both the suggestion of two remotely connected stories that are concealing each other, while the repetition creates anxiety. I am suggesting a duality that is embedded in the piece: the two extremes, life and death, love and hate, comfort and discomfort in the domestic field.