overhead overheard                               stephan schulz                               videodoes@gmail.com

With my "Boom Camera" I am walking through the streets of this city. Sometimes alone and sometimes I ask friends, acquaintances or visitors to join me. The "Boom Camera" is a 12-foot painters pole with a miniDV camera attached on the top, which looks down.
It is a fairly simple tool that accompanies my walks and functions as a catalyser for conversations and encounters. The tool's presence fades out of the centre of attention and becomes a quiet witness.

"overhead overheard" has two sides to it one being the performance and the other is an installation in a gallery.
A TV is mounted on top of a ladder, facing upwards. When the visitor climbs up and puts on the headphones she/he can listen to and watch a four-minute video of one of the performances from the perspective of the camera. Being up on the ladder bridges the gallery space and the viewing experience with the event of the performance.


The video shows two people standing, looking and observing their surrounding. While the perspective on to the two people is from high up, the audio of the conversation is extremely close and intimate. The confusing perspective and the inability to identify the space of the video shot create a feeling of curiosity, uncomfortableness and floating.

Watch the video that is shown on the TV.

Read a bit more text here.
performance in public space
installation in gallery
How can we investigate and influence the flux of everyday life as we are caught up in it?

Let's go
Up,
Over,
Under
and
Inside.
I think interaction and exchange between people is what makes this world tick. Since we are deeply entrenched inside everyday life it is difficult to step outside and get a different perspective. The questions I am interested in are: How can we investigate and influence the flux of everyday life as we are caught up in it? Which methods and devices allow us to investigate human interactions within both public and private spaces best? I am particularly interested in how our bodies function, how movements can be combined with technology, and how that can influence our perception and participation in public and in private. For these reasons I am focusing my work on the use and usefulness of "Body Extensions." This term refers to methods, tools and devices that help us understand our social and spatial position in this multifaceted society and might help us to overcome our (especially my) anxieties to connect to others.