2009
CIRCULARITIES
A multi-channel video installation presenting on one same wall a series of small screens showing different actions in loops. Not only are the videos played in loop but also the actions share the fact of being somewhat tautological: they fold over themselves as if pointing towards an involution. The compositional idea behind these actions tries to implode the usual and useful affordances of an object, only to activate the poetics of a space that emerges when such object is used to serve itself (like a shovel being used to be buried). By repeating one same idea in relation to different objects, the work varies the possibilities of expressing the link between what might be called an absurd action and the logical thoughts that from it derive. Something that simultaneously is and is not a metaphor.
⌂ TECHNICAL INFO
Conception, Performance and Installation: Carlos Manuel OliveiraProduction: Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin