CATS MAKE YOU WANT TO STAY IN

 
“CATS MAKE YOU WANT TO STAY IN”  is a video-installation that encourages the visitors to question themselves about the position animals hold in their environment. It explores what means to live with a non-human being, coexist with it and how this affects the way the space is inhabited; also, how this other presence shapes the place’s own temporality. This piece makes the most of the unique characteristics of the drawing and animation language in such a way that it gives life to the space through video projections.
Keywords: Animal, to cohabit, animation, private space, video-installation

DEVELOPMENT

line of work

​Memories (2014)

The Box: (2014)

Kai's Box (2014

art references

process (March - July 2015)

​The SPACE

About the animation

Animation test for the cat. I was looking for an expressive line, but also one that suggested a house cat.

SKETCHBOOKS

planning

Thumbnail board including the two walls for the animation.

Animatic

habitable space

Photoshop edit of how it would look like in the space.

​produccion

Test in the room:

Rough animation of the cat:

intallation (test)

change of plans: unexpected and unfortunate

A month to the exposition , the room I was going to use was not available anymore and I was given another room with total different dimensions. 
In that case I choose to project over carton boxes a reduced version of the installation, giving it the warm and secure feeling that cats look for when they go inside carton boxes.

SPECIAL THANKS
To Angela Schuster, that helped me with Sound and Editing and the installation itself. 
To Kai, my cat, for being a cat and the spark for my work.