In collaboration with Volker Möllenhoff
Insignia, None, 2023 is a two-channel synergistic-responsive video installation on three Sony HR Trinitron monitors, programmed to respond to the presence and proximity of the viewer within the exhibition space via PIR sensors [establishing also, phenomena as quanta]. The contingency of the audience is at once intended and non-local. A second turn occurs, within the explicit: Nost-algae, algia, 2022 - 2023 is a 15:55 minute-long analog epic shot on Kodak Super 8, over an interdisciplinary research trip undertaken in April-August 2022 with my artistic partner, the nuclear scientist Anna Nikou. Nost-algae, algia, is an epistemological euphony on the inhabitance and dishabitance of desire. The distance within landscapes occupies a double dialectic fold, haunting the possibility of localization.
Insignia, None is a citing of tension: a statement of an already-at-loss in relation to itself. A citation that decenters by providing a way to think about itself - abiding in tension between contemplative distance and tactile immediacy. I tend to imagine that this would tend to an interest in the limits of [rational] imagination and the index of immortality - the decimation of poststructuralism’s perspective-oriented correlationism. This tendency resulting in an interest in how one’s approach to the production of meaning takes place within and against the proliferation of substitutes for the real.
NOST - ALGAE, ALGIA
Super 8 film, re-stabilized, 15:55 min.
Nost-algae, algia, 2022 - 2023 is an epistemological euphony on the inhabitance and dishabitance of desire. Each landscape is introduced through the narrative anticipation of a counter-landscape, a future past. The tension between idea and image, memory, and implementation models the entanglements and disjunctures of spacial world-making. The distance within (the in-between of) landscapes occupies a double dialectic fold, haunting the possibility of localization.
*The title is a reference to Hollis Frampton’s Hapax Legomena.
THE INTERVALIC OBJECT
Essay, A5, grayscale, edition of 20