Dreamtime

Planta 23. 03:45
23 Floor. 03:45

Ensayo nš5: sobre el amor.
Test # 5 on love
Ensayo nš3: sobre la contemplación.
Test # 3 on contemplation
Ensayo nš1: sobre la creación.
Test # 1 on creation
MIMEOMAI
Un espacio nuevo
 A new space
Reversible
Prime Time
Deconstrucción de principios Pop
Pop principles deconstruction
estudio en 7.s
Research in 7.s.
Vulnerable
Para no más
To say no more
Inter-
Camas bisiestas I
 Leap beds I






This works is part of a series entitled ‘Tests’, in which I reflect on abstract concepts as creation, perfection, contemplation...

In this one concretely, I look for a score where I can frame such a complex emotion as love. I establish four parts through which this feeling develops. ‘Test #5 on love’ shows, from a very narrative point of view, the different stages of a concrete love story.

As in the other works in the series, chance has been a very important factor in its construction, and I have always adapted the language used to the concept I was working in. So it is normal that this video displays a very cinematographic component because I am interested in going deeper not in a specific instant in the love story but in its time projection.

Test #3 on contemplation together with MIMEOMAI make up a group of works conceived in the Brazilian Amazon Rain Forests environment and are the result of that experience. In this project concretely, I develop by means of images what contemplate means for me and the mind fields you can approach through the action of contemplating.

"Go back to your loneliness, brother, and take your tears with you. I love him whose will is creating something beyond himself and for it, he passes away".

Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche,

“And how I longed to be left alone with Eternity in a flower, Infinity in four chair legs and the Absolute in the folds of a pair of flannel trousers!"

The doors of perception, Aldous Huxley.

“Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.”

Gospel of St. John, 19:40.

“The one sitting in front of Mr. Goliadkine was Mr. Goliadkine’s terror –in a nutshell, it was Mr. Goliadkine himself- not the Mr. Goliadkine sitting on his chair in that moment with his mouth open and the pen in the air; not the one... -no, it was other Mr. Goliadkine, completely other, but at the same time very alike the first one..."

The double, Fiodor Dostoïevski

"…as someone who having drunk and eaten in excess ends up vomiting in great spasms and feels relief in the end, that is how the insomniac, victim of his repugnance fits, Siddhartha longed for being freed from those pleasures and habits, from that absurd life and of course, from himself. "

Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse

Carrying out a public action requires some previous rehearsing in order to overcome fear or insecurity. These rehearsals are conducted by conventional behaviour guidelines: we generally start from a stereotyped idea of the action and we try to repeat it in our own possibilities. Everything out of the conventional parameters will be branded as weird or eccentric, so an action will become more perfect depending on the degree of conventionality it is subjected to. But, what would happen if we overlapped all the rehearsals of a concrete action so that we could see all of them at a time? Without any doubt we would witness a strange looking and embarrassing sight and there is where my work is placed: a music video clip that stops being pop because it shows how pop is built. Extreme perfection shows its most grotesque side and is invalidated because of its origin which denies everything peculiar and personal.

This work deals with the artist’s research subject and raises a compulsory parallelism between life and art. This way the everyday situations and/or objects will be the ones that give way to long thought reflections.
Life snippets which give back answers to vital questions.

"...but being famous is not that important. If I were famous I would not have been shot for being Andy Warhol. Perhaps I would have been shot in the army. Or perhaps I would have been a fat school teacher… I was shot in 1968 so that is 1968’s version. But then I am obliged to think: Is anybody willing to make a 1970’s version of that life attempt? "


Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B and back again).

"When one of her lovers left her, Laura ran after him, fell to the ground, and broke her ankle. She made her leg be cut off claiming she suffered from gangrene to make her lover feel guilty. Even then, her thirst for revenge was not satisfied."

Law of desire, Pedro Almodóvar.

 To find out hidden intentions and redefine a situation. Everything is circular. It is easy to change place. A search for the self power to change, to adapt to situations, as when certain insect generations get used to their own poison and stop being vulnerable to the product. Immunity goes together with attack. Being conscious of bad intentions and reveal against them, being stronger than the villain and this way, being more intelligent, more scathing if possible.

Hold my hand and take me to somewhere interesting, any of those strange places you know that puzzle me.
Contradict my words and question my taste. We will reach a logical agreement where your radical thoughts melt with my flexible structures. Let us meet something neither yours nor mine, or even better, something neither you nor me know, something very exotic we can impregnate with.
Share your thoughts with me and I will tell you my innermost wishes.
You have chosen a beautiful moment to be with me: I will tell you the worst experiences I have been through. It will not be difficult for you to understand me for you know me well enough.
Learn of the things I reject and I will seize your slightest thoughts.

A PERFECT GUIDE TO LIFE TOGETHER.

Time: 3´20´
Videoinstallation
2000-01