The WIThNESS : A 1.5 dozen artist collaborative in the study of experimental narrative, gesamthwerks, and ultra-convoluted mythologies.
I performed as a chief content manager, which involved the universal weaving and narrative linkage of every artist, avatar, and their
location of choice to be invented towards the WIThNESS universe. I placed the characters in a timeline not unlike a Marvel or Middle Earth mythos.
Thus .... (Available soon : The WIThNESS bible which is a 120+ page chronicle of the actions taken place over a four month period.)
The following videos, labeled accordingly, bracket my main contributions toward the project which involve a quilting of technical and performative skill.
(After the video listing, read the excerpt from the WIThNESS bible written by the chief scholar of the operation.)
FULL YOUTUBE PAGE : witHnessproject
{horror day} My contribution : Actor (the psychotic, evangelical prison Gavin Lee Felix), {wrestle day} My contribution : Video editor, actor (the smarky, out of his league indie
install crew/blood maker, and extra for several of the scenes (including the dancer with a wrestler Super Burro, extra for a lot of the scenes, and avatar creator for the wrestling game.
HORROR DAY was a stake on underground zombie culture for exploring cinema mythos. WRESTLE DAY was born cause our only fan on YT was a hardcore, convoluted wrestling fan.
{preparing for horror night} I documentary I filmed of myself and two fellow members {preparing for the withnessmania} My own avatar and a fellow member's avatar
exploring a studio art basement filled with hidden pathways, furnaces, and porno. team up in the wrestling game in a Machinima-eqsue theater. I am playing as both.
{blueprint for the city of Belle Opaque} An imaginary city I constructed for the WIThNESS
which involved a convoluted mindmap, pages of mythology, and a unique design where
it existed since the dawn of time. A small fracture of the epic-genre info is inside.
A miniscule excerpt of the witHness bible-
{There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken with eyes closed, leads on to slumber; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is found on the edge of new horizons, promising yet unknown. On such a full sea are we now afloat.
This tide is patterned in its knowledge, in its belief as it informs our every move. It becomes our shared attitudes, values, and goals. It is what marks us. And if taken with our eyes closed, it has the ability to transform us into those who sleep rather than those awake.
This tide is crushing in its strength, a force outside of us. It is seen and felt, but can it be controlled?
Within every time and place we find those who have moved out of the space that would have protected them, and into the quiet forest, into the world of the unknown, of original experience. They are those who lurk on the edges. They toe the line that distinguishes from what is to what will be. It is these border dwellers that find the ability to stand at the edge of all that is known and seen and push. The circle widens and culture is born and reborn, shaped and reshaped.
And what happens when more than one of these border-dwellers surfaces at the same time, the same place? It is in that place that we discover a vast new world. It is in that place we find the modern day mythmakers. It is in that place we find The Withness. -E. Shaw}
