Thanatos - a performance featuring butoh, video and sound.
'thanatos' is the name of death.
combining video and dance, arts conspiracy reach into the earth and pull faces from the fire. death is not only physical but cultural. whether or not you believe in 'spirit' the body survives beyond death. death is performative: it is staged, its presentation is controlled, yet many interpretations of death’s message are possible.
arts conspiracy is a shadowy group of artists in various media. 'thanatos', is a video/dance/music/installation incorporating the videography and photography of abstract painter sabine portela and writer peter pick, the butoh dance of artist carolina diaz and the music of the loop-based improvising duo meshmass. 'thanatos' features images from the catacombs of palermo, sicily and will in this instance be danced live and exclusively by carolina diaz. 'thanatos' is one part of the series 'isolated churches'. http://soundcloud.com/meshmass
Geology / Lava Field - Darr Tah Lei 2012, super 8 mm film, 10'48", Iceland/Germany.
Darr Tah’s main theme of investigation is trans-humanism based on research about the super string theory and post-duality theories. She tends to deeply geometrize this research in order to unveil the logics beyond it. Due to the uncertainty of this zone of action she frequently falls into a certain abyss of abstraction, which leads and enforces her to work with rude and concrete materials. Darr Tah projects models of her ideal art works, mainly installations and sculptures, using such elemental materials, raw and semi-raw earth resources, from which she gets deeply inspired. Connecting with such materials Darr Tah sculpturally re-appropriates and transforms their qualities into meaningful anti-site specific realities, dislocating the rudeness and brutality of nature to the civilized art spaces. In 2007 she re-visited Iceland and was fascinated by the natural resources of the island. She is planning to go to live and work there, since there she found an enormous potential that could contribute to her sculptural ideas. http://darrtahlei.wordpress.com/
Geology / Lava Field - Darr Tah Lei 2012, super 8 mm film, 10'48", Iceland/Germany.
Darr Tah’s main theme of investigation is trans-humanism based on research about the super string theory and post-duality theories. She tends to deeply geometrize this research in order to unveil the logics beyond it. Due to the uncertainty of this zone of action she frequently falls into a certain abyss of abstraction, which leads and enforces her to work with rude and concrete materials. Darr Tah projects models of her ideal art works, mainly installations and sculptures, using such elemental materials, raw and semi-raw earth resources, from which she gets deeply inspired. Connecting with such materials Darr Tah sculpturally re-appropriates and transforms their qualities into meaningful anti-site specific realities, dislocating the rudeness and brutality of nature to the civilized art spaces. In 2007 she re-visited Iceland and was fascinated by the natural resources of the island. She is planning to go to live and work there, since there she found an enormous potential that could contribute to her sculptural ideas. http://darrtahlei.wordpress.com/
On Materiality of the Digital Image - Sara Santos 2012, 4', mini DV, Hi 8, VCR, Portugal.
The certainty of disappearance, of the feebleness of contemporary constructs happens in the exact measure that entropy becomes effective in the realm of extra-human activity. Image degradation comes at the same time as the dissolution of codes and language. Objects loose their value to economy in this process of obsolescence that is another way of saying the dissolution of contractual ties between function and desire (or anticipation) by erasing large-spectre experiential qualities of memory.
The sequence is made from a single clip. The material (clip) was exported to the VCR and recaptured again with different devices, copiously until it corrupted (or transformed) the initial image into something else, a symbolic unveiling of the information contained and silent in the initial image. The sound of this video was made out of a cut-up of Stockhausen, Pierre Shaeffer and Rolfriehm pieces. This essay is part of a wider group of experiments with the video image that focuses on finding a representation (or form of writing) of the device itself. http://saramorgadosantos.blogspot.co.uk/
Formosa Series 1A - Robert Ross 2012, 6'34'' High Definition video, UK.
The 'Formosa Series' is a new library of video paintings in both single and multi-screen format. The first of the series '1A' is a poetic resistance to the bullying of reason and a space for the magical play of the unknown.
Robert Ross is "l'uomo aulico". His practice spans: videography; nature photography; CAD abstractions; music involving strong percussive and microtonal elements; written texts. http://piedwagtail.org/
Big Moth - Simon Mclennan 2010 - super 8 mm film, 3'14", UK.
Big Moth combines found sound - a recording of Glasgow buses, the process of grinding coffee beans and ambient noise from a balcony in Hove - with a spoken poem about embodying a moth. Filming was done in Brighton, Elephant and Castle and Whitechapel London on super 8 mm film.
The certainty of disappearance, of the feebleness of contemporary constructs happens in the exact measure that entropy becomes effective in the realm of extra-human activity. Image degradation comes at the same time as the dissolution of codes and language. Objects loose their value to economy in this process of obsolescence that is another way of saying the dissolution of contractual ties between function and desire (or anticipation) by erasing large-spectre experiential qualities of memory.
The sequence is made from a single clip. The material (clip) was exported to the VCR and recaptured again with different devices, copiously until it corrupted (or transformed) the initial image into something else, a symbolic unveiling of the information contained and silent in the initial image. The sound of this video was made out of a cut-up of Stockhausen, Pierre Shaeffer and Rolfriehm pieces. This essay is part of a wider group of experiments with the video image that focuses on finding a representation (or form of writing) of the device itself. http://saramorgadosantos.blogspot.co.uk/
Caliban Tower - Graham Mackeachan, Rita Says 2012 - 1'12" mobile phone, UK.
A short film by Graham Mackeachan & Rita Says in response to the use made of Shakespeare's The Tempest by LOCOG, and a comment on the distortion of its essentially republican and anti-imperialist message. http://cargocollective.com/deep-underground
A short film by Graham Mackeachan & Rita Says in response to the use made of Shakespeare's The Tempest by LOCOG, and a comment on the distortion of its essentially republican and anti-imperialist message. http://cargocollective.com/deep-underground
The 'Formosa Series' is a new library of video paintings in both single and multi-screen format. The first of the series '1A' is a poetic resistance to the bullying of reason and a space for the magical play of the unknown.
Robert Ross is "l'uomo aulico". His practice spans: videography; nature photography; CAD abstractions; music involving strong percussive and microtonal elements; written texts. http://piedwagtail.org/
Big Moth - Simon Mclennan 2010 - super 8 mm film, 3'14", UK.
Big Moth combines found sound - a recording of Glasgow buses, the process of grinding coffee beans and ambient noise from a balcony in Hove - with a spoken poem about embodying a moth. Filming was done in Brighton, Elephant and Castle and Whitechapel London on super 8 mm film.
The poem's subject of the imagined embodiment of a moth is in parallel to some of the ideas prevalent in butoh -
"Butoh disregards all notions of sophistication and symbolical referencing. It does not seek idealised form or harmonically choreographed patterning, but embraces the spontaneous, the grotesque, the ungainly, the raw, non-aesthetically encoded body. Butoh gropes beneath the overlay of socialisation and cultural authoritarianism for 'the body that has been robbed'...the 'fiery body', the wild inner flame in the heart of darkness." (Taghairm Arts) http://www.taghairmarts.com/documents/31.html www.themouseescapes.co.uk
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| Darr Tah Lei - Geologies |
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| Arts Conspiracy - Thanatos |
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| Simon Mclennan - Big Moth |
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| Sara Santos - On the Materialty of the Digital |
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| Graham Mackeachan/Rita Says - Caliban Tower |
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| Robert Ross - Formosa Series 1A |
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