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EXIST[CORRESPONDENCE]
DIÁRIOS JAPONESES – NIHON NIKKI – JAPANESE DIARIES
‘ Entre um ser e outro há um abismo’ [Bataille]
interactive video installation + TELEMATIC performance
Rachel ROSALEN, Brazil
invited artist as LIVE colaborator for the telemátic performance:
shin-ya b., Tokyo
techinical assistance: André SHEIK - programming
in director: Marcos FONSECA, performance in the
diários japoneses: Youichirou Osawa, Rachel Rosalen
special thanks to: Kabum, Brígida Baltar, Higure
17-15 CAS, IKKA studio.
EXIST [CORRESPONDENCE] - DIÁRIOS JAPONESES is a
media art project that discusses erotica and violence in the space-time
relations lived by bodies-in-flux in the postindustrial metropolis.
Built in the creases, this foreign body and in traffic is supported
by erroneous roots, approached in the net’s virtuality and
lacking bodily presence. This subject who lives in these [anti]
territories, draws a diminishing political existence and more technical.
Societies of control and contagion, their wounds are evident on
the web and symphonized in the urban situations. The body remains
as a contaminated act of humanity. These crushed bodies by the failures
of the utopias, search on the web and in the difference the love.
In this MA*(suspension of space and time), this subject acts through
the contemporary versions of masks: avatars, fiction bodies launched
in simulated adventures.
The relations of proximity and distance are always imaginary.
Disterritorialised and lonely, they ask themselves: does Correspondence
exist?
EXIST [CORRESPONDENCE] - DIÁRIOS JAPONESES creates
many approximation strategies in this everyday impact with the ‘abysm
between one being and another’ of which Bataille tells us
about. Its this abysm, this black hole, this vertigo that lyes on
the skin of the image that reveals in the installation. There are
various layers in space and time that are overlapped: the Japanese
diaries create a direct counterpoint for the plain net image. If
these images (from the diaries) gives us the body-to-body, the confrontation
and the denudation before the other, the web gives us dissimulation,
the fragmentation and the “superficiality” of a correspondence
that is marked by absence.
EXIST [CORRESPONDENCE] - DIÁRIOS JAPONESES is a
procedural work built by layers. The images of the diaries form
a loop where this suspension is pierced by images used on LIVE.
This tension between time and intensity, duration and fragility,
proximity and distance, design the rhythm of this correspondence.
First layer: video loop of Japanese diaries. Second layer: a telematic
correspondence performed in real time using video streaming, performed
between two artists between Japan and Brazil gives continuity to
the idea of diaries. Third layer: these images of the loop are available
into keyboards, connected to two projectors. A program in director
links the images used on LIVE to the letter keys of the keyboard.
Through them, each user may (re)construct this “situation”
of correspondence, in the attempt of building “a bridge between
one being and another” throughout the recognition of this
abysm of which speaks Bataille.
* MA: Japanese concept, which means space-time suspension, the interval
between the inside and the outside in architecture, the retention
of the arrow on the bow before it, is launched.
EXIST [CORRESPONDENCE] – Japanese Diaries
Structure:
Telematic live performance
Hardware:
G4 dual 1.4 GHz
Pentium IV 256 GHz
Software
Darwin
QuickTime Player PRO
I Chat
Interactive Installation
Hardware:
2 Pentium IV 256 GHz
Software
QuickTime Player PRO
Director 8.5
Other equipments:
Two projectors de 1500 ansilumens
4 speakers
Space: dark room 7 X 5 mts2.
Rachel Rosalen Visual Artist, graduated in ARCHITECTURE
AND URBANISM, with a master degree in MULTIMEDIA ART from UNICAMP,
BRAZIL. The artist’s career path has three fundamental axes
that get together: the body, the image and the city. With a route
specially punctuated by research on the body as a media, the result
of which are performances, site specifics and video-installations.
Invited professor at SENAC post graduation course, São Paulo.
Live and work in between São Paulo, Tokyo and Italy. In 2003
got the Artist in Residence fellowship from Japan Foundation to
make an interactive video installation in Tokyo.
shin-ya b.
Born 1967. Lives in Tokyo. Earned M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art,>
Philadelphia, USA
shin-ya b. has been working in different dynamics
of fields ranged
from film festivals / museum to personal web site / street performances.
His works have been shown in many different film festivals including
onedotzero and ResFest. He is currently collaborating with toru
yamanaka - one of the original sound creators of dumb type, YEN
(Yutaka Fukuoka - YEN calling), Kyota Takahashi, and 3KG. Most of
his works deal with "accidental panorama - inevitable happenings
within accidental cause and pattern recognition" which usually
visuals are drawn from his daily personal visions that processed
thru digital medium. His show highlights includes Modern Art Museum
Kobe, Asahi Art Festival, Tokyo Designers Block and Gallery Art
Space (Aoyama, Tokyo).
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