Split screens? Technique for purpose?

You know it keeps coming back to this... multi screen work.

Today I put some time in to look, give time to watch and watched two pieces within 500 metres of each other.

Firstly Hilary xxx at Raven Row, apparently the artists artist from Halifax. According to timeout she was looking at how video technology itself effect consciousness. I don't agree but there was something written, which I will find and add, saying the way it was laid out meant you had to physically and mentally negotiate with the technology in the space. True, quite literally. But the space, oh my god the luxury of a stunning 3 storey house. White walls, white ness, white and some chocolate carpets on the stairs for comfort. Just me, two staff and two other women in there for the half hour I looked, sat and watched.

First off - 4 screens projected onto a wall, different shapes with some overlaid with each other. Really liked that. It made sense to me. Of course the overlap and layer.

Second 6 screens, next to each other as the camera lingers of an image of a man part naked. Looped.

Upstairs 1 - split screen looped work with layered repeated sound and visuals which bumped into each other and moved together then apart again.

2. Similar but of different view. Skyline at night with a tower, I love the sky and will have sky, scouse sky and its ever moving colours and shapes interspersed, Intermittent.. some space, breathe. Let the audience, participants breathe too. Its not about the dark but light within the dark.

Then went off to RICH MIX, more people than I have ever seen queing, in the cafes etc. Still mainly white and black staff... such is the way, such is the prejudice, such is the deep rooted nature of equality that has not really, deeply been challenged. I am exotic and so is my mate.

Anyway film - 127 hours. Not really read up bar something that related multi screen nessy. Erm well mainly in the titles, which attempt to contextualise the person and once or twice in the film. Didn't gel, wasn't an effective use of technique, wasted and really a basic narrative why bother even trying additional techniques when there really isn't much else to say?? Oh you sound like a right arrogant snob! What the fxxx do you know? What do you do? Millions will watch this, this screening was full! Full! whatever I do and have done will not sit within an inch of the numbers who see this, but is that or has that ever been my intention? No.. the ideas, the subjects sometimes yes. I wan you all to know about them, not all but some. But the pleasure and pain is mine, selfish, for me. Its true. I am looking and I look with these tools, this technology and I try to speak with you, to you, of you, of me.