Video
PERSPECTIVE / PERSPEKTIVA
video instalation, loop, 2010
three projections (one on transparent canvas, two on nontransparent canvas), wall
Performers: Ana Čigon & Blaž Šef
The video was structured into a loop; ceaselessly repeating itself, having no beginning and no end. The incessant repeating is deliberate. The video installation focuses on the limited ability of perception of personal problems of an individual. The understanding depends on the stand point where from one can as a spectator – an external observer – understand another or rather can identify with him/her. It is an atempt to question the borderline of our skin, our bodies. The performers in the video keep seemingly incessantly losing hope and repeatedly entering into a struggle. With the impossible struggle to be able to see both parts of the installation at once, we are – as spectators – as well thrown into the loop.
The structure of the video differs from the hierarchy that I have employed in my former short videos, bringing about a shift at the end. In the video installation “Perspective”, the story is constructed in a different way; the gradual intensification of the meaning does not happen only in time, but also through a premeditated placing of the projected videos and the ceaseless repetition of its parts.
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