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Instalación de 5 canales (4 de vídeo + 1 de audio)
HD 1:1, sonido 5.1, 4’00” en loop
Cada pantalla: 280 x 280 cm
2016



Vídeo con los 4 canales + audio:


O es una videoinstalación en cinco canales: cuatro canales de vídeo y uno sonoro. Cada canal de vídeo representa una dimensión de nuestra relación con el mundo: el macro, el micro, lo artificial y lo natural. Formando un cubo, cada espacio se enfrenta uno al otro ubicando al observador en medio de los mismos. O busca provocar una reflexión de nuestra relación, como seres humanos, en el mundo en que estamos, entendiendo mundo no solo nuestro planeta, sino todo el universo, y que gran parte de esta relación se basa en el consumo de recursos y el consumo de imágenes, ambos de manera acelerada.



Obra exhibida en NC-arte (Bogotá, Colombia), parte de la exposición colectiva Hacia una nueva orilla, comisariada por Claudia Segura.

Links: vistas de la exposición, textos (leaflet/hoja de sala), vídeo.




Towards a New Shore explores our perception of the Universe; that dome over our heads to which we turn in awe and curiosity. What are its connotations? What desires do we project on it? What do we expect to find there? Through futuristic novels, ancient legends, space movies, urban appropriations and sidereal music, the projects presented in Towards a New Shore explore the idea of Space. The title of the exhibit is taken from a song by La Arkestra, a jazz group of the sixties based on the philosophy of Sun Ra, its founder, and rooted in science fiction, interplanetary voyages and philosophical Kabbalistic theories and on his stage presentations that constituted a unique experience due to the extravagant costumes, the mixture of dierent jazz modes and the inclusion of audiovisual fictional elements.

The group exhibit deconstructs the fiction genre expanding it beyond the future, as a possible strategy for creation that overcomes the limitations of our present and proposes other subjectivities and parameters of life. The Universe is also understood in terms of being a place yet to be discovered, which enables the imagination of a dierent time, an invented body and a rhyzomatic language that draws from sensorial and sound experimentation.

Towards a New Shore shies away from identifying science fiction with technological sophistication. Instead it takes on the created machinery to be able to reach remote parts of the Universe, and thus, finally to play with imaginations. Being curious about learning about and discovering unknown places is what drives research among the artists selected for our exhibition.