50 "waiters" all over the city

After capturing and studying 50 "waiters" -- people who wait in New York City -- some are strangers, some are friends, some are familiar strangers, including myself. I discovered many things happen while people experience the period of "nothing happens".
This is a multi-channel video database installation, features 50 performative waiters all over the city. They wait for different things with different moods and strategies in different time scales. They are not performers in real life, but in my eyes, they are performing and they are colorful, revealing human nature of boredom, anticipation, hopelessness, hopefulness, playfulness, etc. 50 waiters' video portraits are in my database randomly playing back, including the homeless guy waiting for a penny or the cook waiting for the pancake to be ready, etc.

Shot in front of the projected database video piece :

Equipments: projector, (or LCDs), if space allows, better rear projection.

This is a video installation (site specific ) as part of the bigger project: waiting. This video piece features the mind-drifters behind the windows. The footages captured through the store windows are being rear projected to a sheet behind a window of a store to re-draw the scene. It features one type of the "waiters" are mind-drifters, and they usually do day dreaming, highly self-absorbed.I secretly captured the gestures and micro-expressions of these self-absorbed day dreamers/ or sleep walkers behind the window while they were at delis, barbershops, restaurants, bakeries at night, quiet, solitary, waiting for a customer or the close hour.

store front scenarios:

 

Video documentation (Setting in the gallery space, instead of the real storefront, but looking for storefronts to make the project happen on street)

Equipments: projector, (or LCD), rear projection.

Video documentation

Installation Proposal: The prolonged video portraits are projected into frames hanging against the wall, to create a illusion of stillness and nothing happens. Those video portraits are only one second in real life.?

Equipments: projector, (or LCDs), if space allows, better rear projection