VIDEOS
Things come and go... 1999
Shown at The London Artists' Book Fair, Barbican Centre, London, UK 1999.
The chinese room exhibition, VOID Gallery, London, UK, 1998.
It is an animated calligramme reshaping itself and consequently breaking the structure of the sentence. The sound starts with the reading of the poem as the calligramme moves in the sky (animated pieces of paper with words and letters on them). As the words change position by breaking the sentence the sound also brakes creating a kind of rhythm. The sound is produced by a computerised voice. The original poem reads: Things come and go/ they are in a constant state of flux/one moment they are here/ and the next they are not/ we try to hold them.
Learning a language 1999
Shown at The London Artists' Book Fair, Barbican Centre, London, UK 1999.
The chinese room exhibition, VOID Gallery, London, UK, 1998.
Video. The sounds made by the animals and the written form are played disjointedly; bees bleat, cows roar etc
Socratic Enquries 1999
Shown at The London Artists' Book Fair, Barbican Centre, London, UK 1999.
The chinese room exhibition, VOID Gallery, London, UK, 1998.
3D Video/Sound piece. Layers of text and 'punctuation signs'in a three-dimensional universe. Computerised sound originates from the following text: Who knows, I don't know, do you know? No, I don't know. Why don't you know? Oh, I don't know. I just don't know. You know? Yes, I know. As the sound evolves, the sentence changes to unrecognisable sounds and sentences that sound more like I know I don't know you... As these sentences move across the projections on the walls at a speed that supersedes by twenty per cent the general reading pace, the effort to listen collides with the effort to read.
eat your words 1998
Shown at The London Artists' Book Fair, Barbican Centre, London, UK 1999.
The chinese room exhibition, VOID Gallery, London, UK, 1998.
Video animation with sound from message left on answering machine.
Social Interaction 1996
Shown at British and Norwegian Video and Performance Collaboration, Bergen, Norway 1998.
14th International Hamburg Short Film Festival, Germany, 1998.
Interested in the invisible gestures in speech. I used the eyes as a gestural language to express our mental stages. I chose music from silent films to emphasise its impact on the creation of different states of mind, emotions and feelings.
from a to z 1995
Video Installation-King Street studios, London, UK 1995
Shown at Democrazy, Gent- Belgium 1996 & Capricorn Venue, Brussels- Belgium 1996.
Sound and video projection. The 26 letters of the English alphabet are combined with objects often used in learning the basics of a language. The soundscapes are created by multiple drawing dots that give the form to the visual images. By allowing a random sound coming from the linear and structural aIphabet, I was trying to interlink the rational and the emotional systems of communication. I made this piece using an Atari computer and a sound programme I found around called kandisky and used it to draw, creating in this way some really crazy soundscapes of experimental music using different musical instruments from the pallet.
Tongue 1994
Film & Video Marathon, ART IN GENERAL Gallery, New York, USA, 2000.
Animation of a graphic image portraying the tongue and mouth. Each movement represent an English phonetic sound which can be heard on the film at different speeds in relation to the appearance of the image. It is said that the letters in original Hebrew are based on the shape the tongue tool when speaking. I took this idea and developed it into images created by not only the tongue but the cavity of the mouth too. This piece is based on the hidden gestures of spoken language, gestures that are not seen when talking, the body gesture of sound.