Reverberation
Weber, Simone (2022)
Weber, Simone
2022
Maisterin opinnäytetyö
tila-aikataiteet
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe202301021105
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe202301021105
Tiivistelmä
reverberation is an installation consisting of a 4-channel video installation (4x LED screens á 1920 x 1080) and performative installation (drum kit, fair carpet in royal blue, bricks made of ballistic gel colored, live performance). The live performance took place throughout the exhibition time. The time slots of the performance remained unannounced.
reverberation deals in its two foldedness with the performativity of materiality and the inhabited violence, symbolic power and gender/class struggle. On a compositional and musical level which is presented in repetition, synchronicity, mirroring and jump cuts,
reverberation explores the plasticity of materials, emotionality and their resistance to human control. Furthermore, reverberation is a work on body memory, on what is left in human flesh, structure and architecture. The two parts of the work, the video installation and the performative installation were kept in distance, spatially they were almost on top of each other. The video installation was installed in the first floor (KUVA/TILA gallery) and the performative installation took place on the second floor of Mylly building, visible right after the stair cases. In order to witness the second part of the work, one had to cross the exhibition space, walking along several art works which were displayed in the entrance and stairs of the Mylly building. Then, one had to go up or down the staircase. The soundtrack of the video is detached from it. In the written component I attempt to describe and reflect on the artistic process that lies behind the work reverberation. The thesis consist of fragments of reflections, documentations and contextualizations. Through the term distance I unfold the process of moving from a choreographic and dance practice into video and installation based work. I put the process of reverberation in relation to this reflection in oder to map my development and position as an artist who is working on the intersection of choreography, performance, video and installation. Further on I am describing the process behind reverberation oscillation between artistic interest, past works such as Hypothetic Bodies (2021) and LEASHED UNLEASHED (2021) and in reference to artists who have inspired my work, such like Yvonne Rainer, American dancer, choreographer and filmmaker and also danish choreographer and dancer Mette Ingvartsen and the writing of Jenn Joy, performance artist. By reflecting on the process of operating with different materials I am thinking around the question of: how can we think beyond the human in art? And not least, I open the speculation about an artistic practice that not only collaborators, co-creates amongst disciplines, ways of thinking but involves and is aware of material/nonhuman/inanimate in order to understand human movement - and the nonhuman in us.
reverberation deals in its two foldedness with the performativity of materiality and the inhabited violence, symbolic power and gender/class struggle. On a compositional and musical level which is presented in repetition, synchronicity, mirroring and jump cuts,
reverberation explores the plasticity of materials, emotionality and their resistance to human control. Furthermore, reverberation is a work on body memory, on what is left in human flesh, structure and architecture. The two parts of the work, the video installation and the performative installation were kept in distance, spatially they were almost on top of each other. The video installation was installed in the first floor (KUVA/TILA gallery) and the performative installation took place on the second floor of Mylly building, visible right after the stair cases. In order to witness the second part of the work, one had to cross the exhibition space, walking along several art works which were displayed in the entrance and stairs of the Mylly building. Then, one had to go up or down the staircase. The soundtrack of the video is detached from it. In the written component I attempt to describe and reflect on the artistic process that lies behind the work reverberation. The thesis consist of fragments of reflections, documentations and contextualizations. Through the term distance I unfold the process of moving from a choreographic and dance practice into video and installation based work. I put the process of reverberation in relation to this reflection in oder to map my development and position as an artist who is working on the intersection of choreography, performance, video and installation. Further on I am describing the process behind reverberation oscillation between artistic interest, past works such as Hypothetic Bodies (2021) and LEASHED UNLEASHED (2021) and in reference to artists who have inspired my work, such like Yvonne Rainer, American dancer, choreographer and filmmaker and also danish choreographer and dancer Mette Ingvartsen and the writing of Jenn Joy, performance artist. By reflecting on the process of operating with different materials I am thinking around the question of: how can we think beyond the human in art? And not least, I open the speculation about an artistic practice that not only collaborators, co-creates amongst disciplines, ways of thinking but involves and is aware of material/nonhuman/inanimate in order to understand human movement - and the nonhuman in us.
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