Flow
Three-channel video installation at Nová Cvernovka in Bratislava, 2018
The work explores the identity of the exhibition space and its historical memory by remediation through the performative mobility of the body and objects in the space. Its purpose is the creation of visual and meaning parallels across different time strata, with the help of a motion-associative, and therefore non-linear, intermingling of various events that shaped the history of the muse-um space, the spectator, and the form of time and space within Western culture.
choreography, concept, director: Renáta Pintérová
performance: Mária Ukropcová
camera: Pavol Mikulička
video editing: Máté Csuprot
The video “Story one” represents a ritualistic/aboriginal approach in relationship with the object.
In some parts of performance exercises strengthening elements are present as well as yoga movements. Some aesthetics and movements are appropriated from the sport ads and user based youtube yoga tutorials which I conceptually used as basis for developing the performance choreography.
In the video “Story two” I deal with the colonisation of the space with the body. Body as statue and the movement of the viewer in the exhibition space which goes into the building of different abstract scenes. I examined the mobility and the uncertainty of the “ideal, ie unchanging “perspective”. Close and departed relationship of the body and object. Layers of aesthetics and biopolitics of different matters.
The third video “Story three” deal with memory through which happens the recyclacion of the moves from the previous two stories.
In a green screen environment mixed elements of movements are re-performed.
Some are frozen and some loooped motions which can mimic the character of technology or digital image. Such as frozen motion or gesture movement as cycled GIF.
