Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Gonzalo Lebrija


"The installation is composed of thirty black and white photographs of these books, at the moment of impact by the bullet. The action behind each image remains the same, but the result always different, both poetic and violent. Alongside these photographs is a six minute video presenting the scene of the action, including both full shoots and close ups of the books flying through the air. Is this an act of violence, with its inevitable association of burning books and extreme right wing beliefs? Or is it simply a repetitive action, bringing to mind Nietzsche’s theory of eternal recurrence? Although the great thinkers write these books, at the end they are no wiser about the human condition than the ordinary man."

Wednesday, October 02, 2013

Anna Witt - Beathouse

 

http://vimeo.com/27060041

Beathouse

Collective Performance, Charleroi, 2011

For an artist residence in Charleroi she realized a collective performance with the inhabitants of one of the biggest housing blocks in the city. At a fixed date they opened their windows and played on high volume a CD with their own heartbeats, witch she recorded with an ultrasound scanning beforehand. For 20 minutes the hum of all inhabitants heartbeats could be heard outside. The sucking and pulsating noise created an unfamiliar intimate insight to the human organism and gave the impression of a mysterious machinery.