Optica Festival 2008
Body without organs has been selected for the Optica Festival 2008 in the Individual Artist section and therefore candidate to the Optica Award 2008. It will be screened October 16th in Madrid and afterward November 6th, 7th or 8th in Gijón, Spain.
Body without organs
Body Without Organs is the title of my thesis project at the School of Visual Arts in New York and is a concept borrowed from the French playwright, poet, actor and director Antonin Artaud and successively expanded by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. The project, which is based on a research on liminality and the space in-between, is an experimental audiovisual piece completed in May 2008 and is about a body that wants to be all what remains when you take everything away: a body of pure movements and intensities in-between absence and presence. More information on the subject and part of my thesis documents will be available soon on this website. For the moments you can take a look at some short excerpts of the video.
MISC: Video & Performance
Featuring emerging and established artists working in many different time-based genres, the exhibition MISC: Video & Performance 2007 at the NY Studio Gallery will include my video Metaphysics of locomotion. From November 29, 2007 through December 29, 2007, opening reception December 13.
Past Present Future
The Past Present Future Exhibition is curated by Diane Field and features, among the work of the MFA Computer Art Department students, alumni and faculty of the School Of Visual Arts, my last 4 works: 'Sonopuncture', 'Curved space-time', 'Metaphysics of locomotion' and 'Spectrum'.
Westside Gallery, 133-141 West 21 Street, October 27-November 21 2007, Monday to Friday 9am-7pm, Saturday 10am-6pm. Opening reception Thursday, November 1, 5-7pm. I will be there.
Poême électronique
A synesthetic arousal of images in motion, sounds and lights. I can only imagine how impressive Poême électronique was when presented live in the form of performance at the 1958 Brussels Worlds Fair. 425 speakers were placed all throughout the space created by LeCorbusier and Iannis Xenaki, with the purpose of having Edgard Varêse's sound appear to move in space, all around the audience. A sort of precursor of surround sound.
In LeCorbusier's own words: "I will not make a pavilion for you but an Electronic Poem and a vessel containing the poem; light, color image, rhythm and sound joined together in an organic synthesis". Documentation and images here.
GONE exhibition
'GONE' is an exhibition that will take place at The Horse Hospital in London from Saturday 15th September to Saturday 6th October and my video 'Sonopuncture' will be part of it. For more info read the press release.
Happennings 24-26 Aug 2007
Born and Bred
Argentina-UK-Italy, 2006, dir Pablo Trapero
BFI Southbank, Waterloo, London SE1 8XT
Fri 24 Aug (2.20pm, 6.30pm, 8.30pm)
Sat 25 Aug (3.50pm, 6.10pm, 8.30pm)
Sun 26 Aug (3.50pm, 6.10pm, 8.30pm)
£8.60 / more info / excerpt from event's official page:
"Argentine cinema has attracted a great deal of attention over the last decade, and of the many talented directors who have emerged in that time Pablo Trapero is undoubtedly one of the most influential."
Vinyl (USA 1965, 66min) + Kitchen (USA 1965)
dir Andy Warhol
BFI Southbank, Waterloo, London SE1 8XT
Sun 26 Aug (8.20pm)
£8.60 / more info / excerpt from event's official page:
"Loosely based (by Ronald Tavel) on Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, Vinyl is an avant-garde exploration of cultural incompatiblity."