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The welcome enigma

Datum: 31.07.2002

video-sampling installation

autorIn:Maria Moreira
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PRESS, compress, repress, pressure, assure, a sore, a soul, your sole soul is enough audience for me. RELEASE your attention please, and just please yourself…

The piece made a beginning on my mind with the echoing of a quotation from Deleuze, found in Cinema II, page 29, about "a signaletic material which includes all kinds of modulation features, sensory (visual and sound), kinetic, intensive, affective, rhythmic, tonal, and even verbal (oral and written). Eisenstein compared them first to ideograms, then, more profoundly, to the internal monologue as proto-language or primitive language system. But, even with its verbal elements, this is neither a language system nor a language. It is a plastic mass, an a-signifying and a-syntaxic material, a material not formed linguistically even though it is not amorphous and is formed semiotically, aesthetically and pragmatically. It is a condition anterior by right to what it conditions. It is not an enunciation, and these are not utterances. It is an utterable". And it holds in your mind, it holds you-as-it in your mind, it holds you loose-minding you back in a long again, so to remind it-you now, whenever you…

No, the piece begun with my interest in cinema not as a specific medium, but, and that is very specific for this medium, an interest for its capacity of becoming a shared construct. The same way a world-city, the one that is able to project a strong international image, is a shared construct, holding lines of desire for transformation, as a night-and-day flight chart accumulating you and you and maybe around the planet…

What is it then, that still holds in your mind? Collapsed narrative, preserve and after-effect, not a delay, because already intense in the very moment it captures you in a spell, generous as silence. Image-place, for the time of the affection and the movement of returning to. Using the video-player, as the fast car of the CityCinemaStreets: searching, accelerating, going back, shutting windows blind over street chats… no, let’s pay attention here.

This piece begun because video was invented after cinema. After fascination. Let’s play again-and-again, like a cat and its mouse. Now I got you in my mouth, what will you help me to say?

I am not signing the video-sampling piece, just the installation, just my invitation to see what holds in your mind. Be welcome!

Files:
.rtf / ARTIST / BIOGRAFIE / CV
Intercity 01
Intercity02