ONOMATOPOEIA - within the present future equals past

ONOMATOPEYA
ONOMATOPOEIA
ONOMATOPEIA
ONOMATOPEJA


This is a piece, on which I’ve been recently working. It’s rather a paper version at the moment, than a completed video piece. The video is going to be a probably a multiple screen projection, with about twelve screens. My basic idea was to record close ups of the face, so it would be possible to analyze the way the mussels work in ability to produce the facial expression. However it wouldn’t say anything else except how the face “language” works.
It isn’t satisfying.

Since making the clapping video I’ve become interested in this gestalt language, which is recognizable everywhere in the world, as a non-verbal opportunity to communicate. It hasn’t really changed. It’s like a constant within time, and I kind of love this sentence itself because of its paradoxical appearance. “Panta rhei” as Heraclitus spoke it, doesn’t work with the clapping for example and possibly with some other human made signs, or sounds.

As a material for my video piece I used all kind of human made sounds, the ones, which we make, when being amazed- ‘wow”, when we understanding- “aaaahhhh”, when we agreeing- “mhm”, and so one. What I find interesting is the fact that even without them being words, they do communicate, also the way they last unchanged.

The question is how am I going to make them work in the context of time. In the more general understanding of time, they represent the constant; I would say that within the present, future equals past. The sound last unchanged.

How does the gesture repeat itself in terms of memory? In general we memorize the sound, as it’s always pronounced more less the same, however within the constant repetition it looses its impact. It’s like within Bresson movies, where acting is repeated to the point when it becomes completely mechanical. And these are the mechanics within the human gestures, which interest me. Because of repeating the sound it completely looses it’s impact even if memorized so well.

spaces within spaces

this is an accidental video, which I took with my mobile,a quick thought of distortion of the space only by looking at it in a slightly different angle...

More clapping to come…

Clapping within the clapping, or maybe individual group clapping or authentic duplicates…it all applies to another video piece, which is a continuation of “the clapping exercise with the use of capital letters and the lion king as a background”.
The piece itself is paradoxical in a way. The clapping is almost never performed on its own. It’s mainly placed in the context of the group experience. The repetitiveness of the gesture, in the physical and historical context allows me to extend the process of repetition in the way where the gesture is repeated within the gesture. After performing it once and recording it, I recreated the exercise few more times and recorded every single performance.

Another idea of using the clapping is developed in another piece in which the actual physical clapping was performed once only. After making the first video I simply reproduced it by recording it from the TV screening. Than I produced another video, which was based on the piece recorded from TV. And so it goes. All together I made 12 pieces, where the only one was actually performed. The rest of them are records of records.

More clapping videos to come…

manifesto- temporarily final version...

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CLAPPING EXERCISE-VIDEO

There is no other way of showing approval than clapping. It is one of those universal signs, which must have evolved somewhere in the past and last for all those ages, the notes about clapping can be found in the Bible, for example. It also finds its function in music as a simplest method of keeping the rhythm correct.
What interests me about it is the repetitiveness and the fact it’s one of those gestures, which can be recognized everywhere in the world.
I combined it with the “lion king”, an invented by the people term, and capital letters, which are generally used to emphasize the meaning.

And here it is…a joke really…

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To Agnieszka and myself.
I’ll be truly and honestly supporting her till the point I won’t be able to breath any louder

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One eye open while the other open as well, both function in perfect harmony as the rest of the body almost reflects itself, within the symmetrical order. I will not concentrate on anything else till the time I feel like it.

Structure of the structure and selection of the selection, I did considered it in the past I might consider it back in the future, tomorrow for example.

Saussure and Barthes, I could rethink it back again.

I might change subject completely. Might not.

I shall go and have my coffee and cigarette than and start progressing towards the future or reconsider present, or actually link these two together if I feel like it.

You do whatever you like, I might get involved, however don’t have to. Depends how good the coffee will be.

representation of my practice by the single word - artist text

la jetee

reports on clapping

here is the link to some reports on clapping...
reports on clapping

behaviour of the letters on the page...

CLAPPING EXERCISE WITH THE USE OF CAPITAL LETTERS
cLAPPING eXERCISE wITH tHE uSE oF cAPITAL lETTERS
clapping exercise with the use of CAPITAL LETTERS
clapping exercise with the use of capital leters
CLAPPING EXERCISE WITH THE USE OF capital letters